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The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,243
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The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover): Paul Baines

The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)

Paul Baines

Series: Routledge Revivals

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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 within the pattern of 400 prosecutions from the period 1715-1780. In parallel, accounts of some major instances of literary forgery are rooted in a more pervasive culture in which "forgery" was discovered in many developing areas of literary practice: scholarly editing, historiography and antiquarianism. One surprising aspect of this study is the extent to which literary figures were involved in matters of criminal as well as literary forgery. It is suggested that the two kinds of forgery have unexpected connections with each other through the economy of literature which, following the development of copyright, regarded the signature of authorship as the legal site of literary authenticity, and through the economic and legal culture of forgery prosecutions, in which bogus "writing" came to signify a whole range of problems of personal and literary character. The study is based on a very large body of diverse material, from major texts such as "The Dunciad" and "Lives of the English Poets" to hundreds of minor poems, controversial pamphlets, criminal biographies, newspapers, legal records and manuscripts.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Revivals
Release date: June 2020
First published: 1999
Authors: Paul Baines
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-19545-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN: 0-367-19545-3
Barcode: 9780367195458

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