Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family editors followed his lead in constructing his posthumous reputation. Following his death in 1834, the family editors faced immediate scandals and sought to construct the Coleridge they preferred in these trying circumstances.

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ALAN VARDY is an Associate Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. He is the author of John Clare, Politics and Poetry (Palgrave, 2003). He lives with his family in Cold Spring, New York.

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Acknowledgements Introduction 'Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin' 'Ungentlemanly Productions': De Quincey and Scandal 'Henry's Book' Coleridge the Plagiarist Her Father's 'Remains': Editing and Filial Love Biographia Literaria, Sara Coleridge, and Self-Creation Posterity and Writing 'for the Day' Collecting Coleridge Notes Bibliography Index