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Author:

Loveman, Kate.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Ashgate Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0754662373 (alk. paper)
9780754662372 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)176648865

LCCN:

2007042380

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)