LEADER 04138oam 2200649I 450 001 9910154588303321 005 20230808200604.0 010 $a1-351-94603-X 010 $a1-138-26194-7 010 $a1-315-25843-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315258430 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758201 035 $a(OCoLC)965542830 035 $a(BIP)63375510 035 $a(BIP)16965249 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965328 100 $a20180706e20162008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeception and detection in eighteenth-century Britain /$fJack Lynch 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) 300 $aFirst published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-6528-3 311 08$a1-351-94604-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aIn 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. 517 3 $aDeception and detection in 18th-century Britain 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterary forgeries and mystifications$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aFraud in popular culture 606 $aImpostors and imposture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnlightenment$zGreat Britain 606 $aFraud$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aFraud in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y18th century 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterary forgeries and mystifications$xHistory 615 0$aFraud in popular culture. 615 0$aImpostors and imposture$xHistory 615 0$aEnlightenment 615 0$aFraud$xHistory 615 0$aFraud in literature. 676 $a364.163094109033 700 $aLynch$b Jack$g(John T.),$0997341 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154588303321 996 $aDeception and detection in eighteenth-century Britain$92287431 997 $aUNINA