Reading fictions, 1660-1740
Subtitle: deception in English literary and political culture
By: Kate Loveman.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780754662372
Subjects: 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.
Table of contents: title: Sceptical reading in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; title: The strange finding out of Moses his tombe : strategies and motives for hoaxing; title: "Florishing lyes" : coffee-house wit in the Restoration; title: More shams still : reading in the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis; title: News, novels, and imposture, 1688-1702; title: Defoe and his "ill-disposed" readers; title: Swift's bites : eighteenth-century raillery in theory and practice; title: Bubbling sentiments : Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Shamela.