The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9780367195465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 195 str.

Paul Baines

Opis

Published in 1999, this work offers a balanced account of literary and criminal forgery as they were practised in the 18th century as. The study is based on material, from poems to pamphlets, biographies, newspapers, legal records and manuscripts.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Paul Baines