Counterfactual Romanticism

Damian Walford Davies is Professor of English and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Cardiff University

'... a fascinating, provocative, and suitably eclectic collection that raises productive questions for eighteenth century specialists.'Eighteenth-Century Fiction

• Introduction: Counterfactual Romanticism – Damian Walford Davies1. ‘The Object As In Itself It Really Is Not’. Counterfactual Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Contingency – Anne C. McCarthy2. Door-to-door and Across-the-counter Factuals: History as Fashion, Furniture, Fraud, Forgery, Folklore and Fiction in the Romantic Onset of Modernity– Gary Kelly 3. The Possibilists: Romantic-Era Literary Forgery and British Alternative Pasts – Mary-Ann Constantine4. Sophia Lee’s The Recess and the Epistemology of the Counterfactual – Tilottama Rajan5. Lord Byron Reads The Prelude – Kenneth R. Johnston6. Counterfactual Obstetrics: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Frankenstein – Damian Walford Davies7. John Thelwall: A Counterfactual Ghost Story – Judith Thompson8. Counterfactual Speculations in Late Romanticism: Scott, Banim, Galt and Mitford – Angela Esterhammer9. Piratical Counterfactual, Piratical Counterfictional: From Misson to Melodrama – Manushag N. Powell10. Romanticism and the (Counterfactual) Chinese Awakening – Peter J. Kitson11. Counterfactual and Future Romanticisms: The Academy and The Canon– Edward LarrissyIndex