Author: Wilhelm Wagner
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368828304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 654

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 970

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Author: Augustus Theodore Bartholomew
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Category : Epistles of Phalaris
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Kristine Louise Haugen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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What made the classical scholar Richard Bentley deserve to be so viciously skewered by two of the literary giants of his day—Jonathan Swift in the Battle of the Books and Alexander Pope in the Dunciad? The answer: he had the temerity to bring classical study out of the scholar's closet and into the drawing rooms of polite society. Kristine Haugen’s highly engaging biography of a man whom Rhodri Lewis characterized as “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue” affords a fascinating portrait of Bentley and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion. Aiming at a convergence between scholarship and literary culture, the brilliant, caustic, and imperious Bentley revealed to polite readers the doings of professional scholars and induced them to pay attention to classical study. At the same time, Europe's most famous classical scholar adapted his own publications to the deficiencies of non-expert readers. Abandoning the church-oriented historical study of his peers, he worked on texts that interested a wider public, with spectacular and—in the case of his interventionist edition of Paradise Lost—sometimes lamentable results. If the union of worlds Bentley craved was not to be achieved in his lifetime, his provocations show that professional humanism left a deep imprint on the literary world of England's Enlightenment.

Author: Richard Bentley
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Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: Thorpe, Thomas, firm, booksellers, London
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1468

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Author: John Leslie (Bookseller.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Paul Baines
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 042951509X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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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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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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