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Author:   Damian Walford Davies
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9781784991418

ISBN 10:   1784991414
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   17 September 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Counterfactual Romanticism – Damian Walford Davies 1. ‘The Object As In Itself It Really Is Not’. Counterfactual Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Contingency – Anne C. McCarthy 2. 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 Constantine 4. Sophia Lee’s The Recess and the Epistemology of the Counterfactual – Tilottama Rajan 5. Lord Byron Reads The Prelude – Kenneth R. Johnston 6. Counterfactual Obstetrics: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Frankenstein – Damian Walford Davies 7. John Thelwall: A Counterfactual Ghost Story – Judith Thompson 8. Counterfactual Speculations in Late Romanticism: Scott, Banim, Galt and Mitford – Angela Esterhammer 9. Piratical Counterfactual, Piratical Counterfictional: From Misson to Melodrama – Manushag N. Powell 10. Romanticism and the (Counterfactual) Chinese Awakening – Peter J. Kitson 11. Counterfactual and Future Romanticisms: The Academy and The Canon– Edward Larrissy Index -- .

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'This book is fascinating and essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand and appreciate changing attitudes towards culture, nationalism, religion, feminism, and the media in Ireland during the past sixty years.' Lyn Innes, Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury -- .

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Damian Walford Davies is Professor of English and Pro Vice-Chancellor (College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) at Cardiff University

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