The enigma of Thomas Chatterton is investigated by Louise J. Kaplan, who untangles the counterfeiter from the artist, the troubled adolescent from the visionary poet, as she recreates the short life of a fatherless boy who found an authentic voice only in the realm of his imaginings.

The Family Romance of the Impostor-Poet Thomas Chatterton

Biographies & Memoirs

Kaplan, Louise J.

Arts & Literature

University of California Press

Adolescence, the Farewell to Childhood

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Simon & Schuster Books

Draws upon Rousseau, Freud, Darwin, Mann, and others to offer an original interpretation of the distinctive, confounding, transitional stage in every child's life

Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Simon&Schuster

Reissued to coincide with the release of Kaplan's latest book, No Voice Is Ever Wholly Lost, Adolescence blends "poetry, scholarship, and sensitive psychological insight to produde a major contribution to the literature of human development" (Aaron H. Esman, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center).

Touchstone Books

Recounts the life of Chatterton, the British poet and forger who ended his own life at seventeen, and attempts to analyze his complex personality

Family Romance of the Impostor Poet Thomas Chatterton

History

Atheneum

Female Perversions

...a distinguished lecturer, author, and psychoanalyst, Kaplan uses Flaubert's Emma Bovary as the archetype that offers historical pespective to the case histories that she examines...acclaimed by professionals and general readers.

Mental Health

Jason Aronson, Inc.

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