Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity

1. Introduction
Kerry Sinanan, Tim Milnes

Part I. Forging Authenticity

2. Genuity or Ingenuity? Invented Tradition and the Scottish Talent
Margaret Russett

3. ‘A Blank Made’: Ossian, Sincerity and the Possibilities of Forgery
Dafydd Moore

4. Authenticity among Hacks: Thomas Chatterton’s ‘Memoirs of a Sad Dog’ and Magazine Culture
Daniel Cook

Part II. Acts of Sincerity

5. The Scandal of Sincerity: Wordsworth, Byron, Landon
Angela Esterhammer

6. Making Sense of Sincerity in The Prelude

Tim Milnes

7. Too Good to be True? Hannah More, Authenticity, Sincerity and Evangelical Abolitionism
Kerry Sinanan

8. Sincerity’s Repetition: Carlyle, Tennyson and Other Repetitive Victorians
Jane Wright

Part III. Marketing the Genuine

9. By Its Own Hand: Periodicals and the Paradox of Romantic Authenticity
Sara Lodge

10. Acts of Insincerity? Thomas Spence and Radical Print Culture in the 1790s
John Halliwell

Part IV. The Case of Austen

11. Austen, Sincerity and the Standard
Alex J. Dick

12. ‘Facts are Such Horrible Things!’: The Question of Authentic Femininity in Jane Austen
Ashley Tauchert

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Literature