Counterfactual Romanticism / edited by Damian Walford Davies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory

Introduction : counterfactual Romanticism / Damian Walford Davies -- 'The object as in itself it really is not' : counterfactual Romanticism and the aesthetics of contingency / Anne C. McCarthy -- 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 -- The possibilists : Romantic-era literary forgery and British alternative pasts / Mary-Ann Constantine -- Sophia Lee's The recess and the epistemology of the counterfactual / Tilottama Rajan -- Lord Byron reads The prelude / Kenneth R. Johnston -- Counterfactual obstetrics : Mary Wollstonecraft's Frankenstein / Damian Walford Davies -- John Thelwall : a counterfactual ghost story / Judith Thompson -- Counterfactual speculations in late Romanticism : Scott, Banim, Galt and Mitford / Angela Esterhammer -- Piratical counterfactual, piratical counterfictional : from Misson to melodrama / Manushag N. Powell -- Romanticism and the (counterfactual) Chinese awakening / Peter J. Kitson -- Counterfactual and future Romanticisms : the academy and the canon / Edward Larrissy.

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