Reading fictions, 1660-1740 : deception in English literary and political culture /: deception in English literary and political culture. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kate Loveman.
• Other Names: Loveman, Kate
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 823.4; 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; English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Impostors and imposture -- England -- History; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351906586; 1351906585
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.