Fakes, lies, and forgeries : rare books and manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection

In addition to providing a checklist of 70 treasures from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, this beautifully-illustrated volume includes five essays that explore the phenomenon of forgery as a creative literary form and provide an interesting and informative sense of the b...

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Other Authors: Havens, Earle (Editor, Hrsg.)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2014
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Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
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Rara
Handschrift
Fälschung
Geschichte
Alter Druck
Fiktion
Katalog
Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Author Notes:ed. by Earle Havens
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Winston Tabb
  • Editor's preface
  • Earle Havens
  • Catastrophe? : species and genres of literary and historical forgery
  • Earle Havens
  • History reimagined : filling the gaps in England's ancient past
  • Neil Weijer
  • Discovering the past : the Renaissance arch-forger and his legacy
  • Walter Stephens
  • Scandal! : literary fakes as best sellers
  • Janet E. Gomez
  • Forged identities : race and nationhood from the eighteenth to the twentieth century
  • John Hoffmann
  • Lies, fakes, and forgeries : a checklist of the exhibition.

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