Author: BRISTOW, JOSEPH
Title: Oscar Wilde's Chatterton : literary history, romanticism, and the art of forgery / Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell
Description: New Haven : Yale University Press 2015. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; xii. 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Summary; In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton. Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton. who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took on the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge. Wordsworth. and Keats but also Victorian artists and authors. Bristow and Mitchell argue that Wilde's substantial 'Chatterton' notebook. which previous scholars have deemed a work of plagiarism. is central to his development as a gifted writer of criticism. drama. fiction. and poetry. This volume. which covers the whole span of Wilde's career. reveals that his research on Chatterton informs his deepest engagements with Romanticism. plagiarism. and forgery. especially in later works such as 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.' The Picture of Dorian Gray. and The Importance of Being Earnest. Grounded in painstaking archival research that draws on previously undiscovered sources. Oscar Wilde's Chatterton explains why. in Wilde's personal canon of great writers (which included such figures as Charles Baudelaire. Gustave Flaubert. Theophile. Subjects; Wilde. Oscar 1854-1900 — Knowledge — Literature. Wilde. Oscar 1854-1900 — Criticism and interpretation. Chatterton. Thomas 1752-1770 — Criticism and interpretation. ISBN: 0300208308. Weight in Kg appr.:

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