Books by Margaret (University of Southern California) Russett

Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and his memoirs of Wordsworth and Coleridge, to examine the idea of the 'minor' author, and how it is related to what we now call the Romantic canon.

British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. In this 2006 book, Margaret Russett demonstrates how Romantic writers distinguished their fictions from the fakes surrounding them. Russett's interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study offers a major reinterpretation of Romanticism and its continuing influence today.