Research Catalog

Title

Thomas Chatterton and neglected genius, 1760-1830 / Daniel Cook, Lecturer in English, Univesity of Dundee, UK.

Author

Cook, Daniel, 1981-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Details

Description

xv, 259 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with ancient English literature. With Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the period, from the periodical press to the public lecture, from the review to the anthology, from textual to biographical criticism. Cook demonstrates that, while major scholars found Chatterton to be a pertinent subject for multiple literary debates in the eighteenth century, by the end of the Romantic period he had become, and still remains, an unsettling model of hubristic genius"--

Subject

• Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770 > Criticism and interpretation
• Chatterton, Thomas 1752-1770
• University of Dundee > Staff author
• 1700-1799
• Literary forgeries and mystifications > History > 18th century
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
• Literary forgeries and mystifications
• Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 > English
• Literary studies: general > Ireland > English
• Literary studies: poetry & poets > English
• Literary studies: poetry & poets > Ireland > English
• Literature
• POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Genius and Scholarship -- 2. Tyrwhitt's Rowley, or 'what the author wrote' -- 3. Miscellanies and the Moderns -- 4. The Rowley Controversy -- 5. 'Too proud for pity': The Sentimental Reader -- 6. 'Neglected Genius': The Romantic Canon -- Afterword -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781137332486 (hardback)
• 1137332484 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2013021796

OCLC

• 834978673
• SCSB-12638518

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library