Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-213) and index.
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.
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