Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery

by Joseph Bristow, Rebecca N. Mitchell, Rebecca N Mitchell

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300208308
• ISBN13: 9780300208306
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"