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This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - ´misfits´ and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits include the Shakespeare forger W.H. Ireland, the novel itself, and the culture of Dissent.

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Introduction The Original Misfit: The Shakespeare forgeries, Herbert Croft´s Love and Madness , and W.H. Ireland´s Romantic Career Gothic Wordsworth The Romantic Abject: Cagliostro, Carlyle, Coleridge The Romantic-era Novel Dissent: Anna Letitia Barbauld Bibliography Index

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ROBERT MILES is the English Department Chair at the University of Victoria, Canada, and was formerly so at the Universities of Stirling and Sheffield Hallam in the UK. His publications include Gothic Writing 1750-1820, Ann Radcliffe: the Great Enchantress and Jane Austen: Writers and their Work.

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