Böcker av Margaret (University of Southern California) Russett

British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. In this 2006 book, Margaret Russett demonstrates how Romantic writers distinguished their fictions from the fakes surrounding them. Russett's interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study offers a major reinterpretation of Romanticism and its continuing influence today.

Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and his memoirs of Wordsworth and Coleridge, to examine the idea of the 'minor' author, and how it is related to what we now call the Romantic canon.