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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154588303321

Autore

Lynch Jack (John T.)

Titolo

Deception and detection in eighteenth-century Britain / / Jack Lynch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-94603-X

1-138-26194-7

1-315-25843-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages)

Disciplina

364.163094109033

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Literary forgeries and mystifications - History - 18th century

Fraud in popular culture

Impostors and imposture - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Enlightenment - Great Britain

Fraud - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Fraud in literature

Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Recognizing a fake when you see one -- 2. Conviction on the first view -- 3. The utmost evidence -- 4. Truth is uniform -- 5. All manner of experience and observation -- 6. The mention of posterior facts -- 7. False recollections -- 8. Motivated malignity -- 9. Different kinds of value.