Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture

PETER ACKROYD Novelist and biographerPAUL BAINES Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, University of LiverpoolINGA BRYDEN Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, King Alfred's College, WinchesterDAVID FAIRER Reader in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, University of LeedsJOHN GOODRIDGE Senior Lecturer in English, Nottingham Trent UniversityRICHARD HOLMES BiographerBRIDGET KEEGAN Assistant Professor of English, Creighton University, OmahaGEORGES LAMOINE Lecturer in English Literature and History, Université du MirailMARIA GRAZIA LOLLA Senior Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan UniversityTIMOTHY MORTON Assistant Professor of English, University of ColoradoCLAUDE RAWSON Maynard Mack Professor of English, Yale UniversityPAT ROGERS DeBartolo Professor of the Liberal Arts, University of South FloridaMICHAEL SUAREZ, SJ Junior Research Fellow, St John's College, OxfordCAROLYN D. WILLIAMS Lecturer, Department of English, University of ReadingMICHAEL WOOD Professor of English, Princeton University

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• Foreword: Thomas Chatterton; P.Ackroyd Introduction; N.Groom PART I: LIFE AND WORKS Unparodying and Forgery: The Augustan Chatterton; C.Rawson The Originality of Chatterton's Art; G.Lemoine 'On Tiber's Banks': Chatterton and Post-Colonialism; C.Williams The Mythical Image: Chatterton, King Arthur, and Heraldry; I.Bryden In Your Face; T.Morton 'This Necessary Knowledge': Thomas Chatterton's Understanding of the Bristol and London Book Trades; M.Suarez, SJ Appendix PART II: THE ROWLEY CONTROVERSY AND AFTER Chatterton and the Club; P.Rogers Chatterton and Johnson: Authority and Filiation in the 1770s; P.Baines Fragments, Reliques , & MSS: Chatterton and Percy; N.Groom Truth Sacrifising To The Muses: The Rowley Controversy and the Genesis of the Romantic Chatterton; M.G.Lolla Nostalgic Chatterton: Fictions of Poetic Identity and the Forging of a Self-taught Tradition; B.Keegan Chatterton's Poetic Afterlife 1770-1796: A Context for Coleridge's Monody ; D.Fairer Forging The Poet: Some Early Pictures of Thomas Chatterton; R.Holmes Afterword; M.Wood Rowley's Ghost: A Checklist of Creative Works Inspired by Thomas Chatterton's Life and Writings; J.Goodridge Index