<p>In <i>Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton</i>, 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 and Mitchell argue that Wilde’s substantial “Chatterton” notebook, which previous scholars have deemed a work of plagiarism, is central to his development as a gifted writer of criticism, drama, fiction, and poetry. This volume, which covers the whole span of Wilde’s career, reveals that his research on Chatterton informs his deepest engagements with Romanticism, plagiarism, and forgery, especially in later works such as “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,” <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i>, and <i>The Importance of Being Earnest</i>. Grounded in painstaking archival research that draws on previously undiscovered sources, <i>Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton</i> explains why, in Wilde’s personal canon of great writers (which included such figures as Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Chatterton stood as an equal in this most distinguished company.</p>

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Bristow, Joseph

Mitchell, Rebecca N.

Arts & Literature

Yale University Press

<p><div> <div>"In this ambitious, interdisciplinary monograph, Rebecca N. Mitchell draws on theories of alterity by Emmanuel Levinas to intervene in current discussions of realism and sympathy. Her argument, supported by close analysis of novels by Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, and extended to paintings by Whistler, is clear, fresh, and provocative.<i>Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference</i> will be an essential book for Victorian scholars interested in visual and literary forms." --Linda M. Shires, professor of English, Yeshiva University</div> <div> </div> </div></p>

Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference (Victorian Critical Interventions Series)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Ohio State University Press

<p><div> <div>"In this ambitious, interdisciplinary monograph, Rebecca N. Mitchell draws on theories of alterity by Emmanuel Levinas to intervene in current discussions of realism and sympathy. Her argument, supported by close analysis of novels by Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, and extended to paintings by Whistler, is clear, fresh, and provocative.<i>Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference</i> will be an essential book for Victorian scholars interested in visual and literary forms." --Linda M. Shires, professor of English, Yeshiva University</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div></p>

Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference (VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO)

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