Literature and Authenticity, 1780–1900: Essays in Honour of by Michael Davies,Dr Chantler Ashley,Dr Davies

Individually and jointly, those essays identify a brand new course for scholarship that examines the the most important actions of interpreting and writing approximately literature and the way they relate to 'authenticity'. although authenticity is a time period deep in literary resonance and wealthy in philosophical complexity, its connotations relative to the learn of literature have hardly ever been explored or exploited via specific, serious exam of person writers and their works. right here the thought of the actual is recognized firstly as significant to a variety of literary and philosophical methods of considering, quite for nineteenth-century poets and novelists. designated from reviews of literary fakes and forgeries, this assortment makes a speciality of authenticity as a imperative paradigm for drawing close literature and its formation that bears on problems with authority, self-reliance, fact, originality, the legitimate and the true, and the true and inauthentic, even if utilized to the self or others. issues and authors contain: the religious autobiographies of William Cowper and John Newton; Ruskin and commute writing; British Romantic girls poets; William Wordsworth and P.B. Shelley; Robert Southey and Anna Seward; John Keats; Lord Byron; Elizabeth Gaskell; Henry David Thoreau; Henry Irving; and Joseph Conrad. the amount additionally encompasses a be aware on Professor Vincent Newey with a bibliography of his severe writings.