Reading fictions, 1660-1740 : deception in English literary and political culture / Kate Loveman.
Author/creator |
Loveman, Kate |
Format | Book and Print |
Publication Info | Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2008. |
Description | 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Subject(s) |
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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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-213) and index. |
LCCN | 2007042380 |
ISBN | 9780754662372 (alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0754662373 (alk. paper) |
Available Items
Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
Joyner | General Stacks | PR 841 .L68 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |