Reading fictions, 1660-1740 : deception in English literary and political culture

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)	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 note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-213) and index.
LCCN	2007042380
ISBN	9780754662372 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0754662373 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR 841 .L68 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold