204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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Published in 1999, this work offers a balanced interdisciplinary account of literary and criminal forgery as they were practised, constructed and theorized in the 18th century as a corollary of the new documents of the financial revolution: banknotes, bills of exchange and promissory notes. The book surveys the crime and its mythology, placing well-known cases such as that of Dr. William Dodd... Read more
1. An Age of Forgery. 2. Script and Scripture. 3. Ward, Crook and Company. 4. ‘Man’s First Disobedience’: Lauder, Johnson and Literary Crime. 5. Johnson, Ossian and the Highland Tour. 6. The Many Lives of Doctor Dodd. 7. ‘All of the House of Forgery’: Chatterton, Walpole and Antiquarian Commerce.
Biography
Paul Baines
