Counterfactual Romanticism

Damian Walford Davies is Professor of English and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Cardiff University -- .

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
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