Reading fictions, 1660-1740 : deception in English literary and political culture / Kate Loveman.

Author/creator Loveman, Kate
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2008.
Description222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700. --History and criticism.
English fiction--18th century. --History and criticism.
Authors and readers--England. --History. --17th century.
Authors and readers--England. --History. --18th century.
Books and reading--England. --History. --17th century.
Books and reading--England. --History. --18th century.
Literary forgeries and mystifications.
Impostors and imposture--England. --History.
Politics and literature--Great Britain. --History. --17th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain. --History. --18th century.

Contents Sceptical reading in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The strange finding out of Moses his tombe : strategies and motives for hoaxing -- "Florishing lyes" : coffee-house wit in the Restoration -- More shams still : reading in the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis -- News, novels, and imposture, 1688-1702 -- Defoe and his "ill-disposed" readers -- Swift's bites : eighteenth-century raillery in theory and practice -- Bubbling sentiments : Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Shamela.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-213) and index.
LCCN 2007042380
ISBN9780754662372 (alk. paper)
ISBN0754662373 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 841 .L68 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold