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Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity This page intentionally left blank Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity Edited by Tim Milnes and Kerry Sinanan Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Tim Milnes and Kerry Sinanan 2010 Individual chapters © contributors 2010 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-20893-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-30266-6 ISBN 978-0-230-28173-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230281738 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 Contents Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 Kerry Sinanan and Tim Milnes Part I Forging Authenticity 1 Genuity or Ingenuity? Invented Tradition and the Scottish Talent 31 Margaret Russett 2 ‘A Blank Made’: Ossian, Sincerity and the Possibilities of Forgery 58 Dafydd Moore 3 Authenticity among Hacks: Thomas Chatterton’s ‘Memoirs of a Sad Dog’ and Magazine Culture 80 Daniel Cook Part II Acts of Sincerity 4 The Scandal of Sincerity: Wordsworth, Byron, Landon 101 Angela Esterhammer 5 Making Sense of Sincerity in The Prelude 120 Tim Milnes 6 Too Good to be True? Hannah More, Authenticity, Sincerity and Evangelical Abolitionism 137 Kerry Sinanan 7 Sincerity’s Repetition: Carlyle, Tennyson and Other Repetitive Victorians 162 Jane Wright Part III Marketing the Genuine 8 By Its Own Hand: Periodicals and the Paradox of Romantic Authenticity 185 Sara Lodge v vi Contents 9 Acts of Insincerity? Thomas Spence and Radical Print Culture in the 1790s 201 John Halliwell Part IV The Case of Austen 10 Austen, Sincerity and the Standard 221 Alex J. Dick 11 ‘Facts are Such Horrible Things!’: The Question of Authentic Femininity in Jane Austen 238 Ashley Tauchert Select Secondary Reading 260 Index 262 Notes on Contributors Daniel Cook is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Before this, he worked as an AHRC-funded Research Fellow on the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift and received his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He has recently completed a book entitled Antiquaries and Romantics: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Chatterton. Alex J. Dick is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is editor (with Angela Esterhammer of Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture (2009) and (with Christine Lupton) of Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing between Philosophy and Literature (2008). He is currently complet- ing a book project on money and value in the Romantic period. Angela Esterhammer is Professor of English at the University of Zurich. She is the author of Romanticism and Improvisation 1750–1850 (2008) and Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture (co-edited with Alex J. Dick, 2009). Previous publications include Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake (1994) and The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (2000). She has edited several collections of essays, the most recent of them being a volume of international, comparat- ist papers entitled Romantic Poetry (2002). Her current research inter- ests include performance, print culture, and mediality during the late Romantic period. John Halliwell is the Research Assistant for the Centre for Romantic Studies at the University of Bristol and is currently completing his PhD on Political Satire in periodicals of the Romantic period. Sara Lodge is Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is a specialist in nineteenth-century literature, with a particular interest in poetry, print culture, comedy and work produced between 1820 and 1850. She has published various articles on nineteenth- century poetry and periodical literature and is the author of Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Work, Play, and Politics (Manchester University Press, 2007) and Jane Eyre: an Essential Guide to Criticism (Palgrave, 2008). vii viii Notes on Contributors Tim Milnes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and The Truth about Romanticism: Pragmatism and Idealism in Keats, Shelley, Coleridge (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He has also published articles on Coleridge, Bentham, Hazlitt, Percy Shelley and Charles Lamb. Dafydd Moore is Associate Dean and Head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth, UK. He is author of Enlightenment and Romance in the Poems of Ossian (Ashgate, 2003) and has edited and introduced Ossian and Ossianism, 4 volumes (Routledge, 2004). He has also written numerous book chapters and articles on Macpherson, including contributions to Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth-Century Studies, the British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Review of English Studies and the New Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Margaret Russett is Professor of English at the University of Southern California, USA and has held visiting appointments at the Breadloaf School of English and Bogazici University, Istanbul. Her teaching and research focus on British Romantic literature, the gothic novel, literary theory and contemporary fiction. Her most recent work has addressed the relationship between literary imposture and Romantic aesthetics. She is the author of De Quincey’s Romanticism: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760–1845 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and articles published in such journals as ELH, Studies in Romanticism, SEL, Genre, and Callaloo. Kerry Sinanan is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, UK. She has published on the Atlantic slave trade, including ‘Slave Narratives and Abolitionist Writing’ for the Cambridge Companion to Slave Narratives (2007). She is completing a monograph, Slave Masters and the Language of Self, and is co-editing a collection, Slavery and its Contradictions. Ashley Tauchert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Exeter, UK. She is author of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine (Palgrave, 2002) and Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism and the Possibility of a Happy Ending (Palgrave, 2005). She currently directs the Exeter English Studies MA Programme and coordinates the Eighteenth-century Narrative Project. Notes on Contributors ix Jane Wright is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol, UK and is a specialist in nineteenth-century poetry. She is currently working on a project entitled ‘Strains of Sincerity in Victorian Poetry’, is co-editing and contributing to Coleridge’s Afterlives, 1834–1934 for Palgrave (forthcoming), and has published articles in The Explicator and Victorian Poetry.

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