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Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public
deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that
forgery, fakery, and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken
grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. Confrontations
with inauthenticity, in other words, bring tacitly understood
conceptions of reality to the surface. Drawing on a wide range of
contemporary print and manuscript sources"not only books and
pamphlets, but ballads, comic prints, legal proceedings, letters,
and diaries"Lynch focuses on the debates they provoked, rather than
the forgers themselves. He offers a comprehensive treatment of the
criticism surrounding fraud in most of the noteworthy controversies
of the long eighteenth century. To this end, his study is
structured around topics related to the arguments over deception in
Britain, whether they concerned George Psalmanazar's Formosan hoax
at the beginning of the eighteenth century or William Henry
Ireland's Shakespearean imposture at the end. Beginning with the
question of what constitutes deception and ending with an
illuminating chapter on what was at stake in these debates for
eighteenth-century British thinkers, Lynch's accessibly written
study takes the reader through the means"whether simple,
sophisticated, or tortuously argued"by which partisans on both
sides struggled to define which of the apparent contradictions were
sufficient to disqualify a claim to authenticity. Fakery, Lynch
persuasively argues, transports us to the heart of
eighteenth-century notions of the value of evidence, of the
mechanisms of perception and memory, of the relationship between
art and life, of historicism, and of human motivation.
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