Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book look
Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book look
Praise for the previous edition:"The summaries are sufficiently meaty to give the reader an understanding of the issues... Recommended for all public, school, and academic libraries."—Library J
hen Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400 BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic "Heraclides is ignorant of letters") to humiliate an academic rival, he paved the way for two millennia of
The Nazi burning of the books in 1933 was one of the most infamous political spectacles of the twentieth century. In Berlin and all over Germany, Nazi officials and students organized elaborate parade
An investigation into the practice of book destruction and censorship explores such historical examples as the smashed tablets of ancient Sumer, the decimation of the Library of Alexandria, and the lo
Iolo Morganwg was Britain’s most successful (and hence, least visible) Romantic forger—as well as a poet, Arthurian, influential antiquarian, and laudanum addict. During his lifetime, Britain was fasc
Investigates the role played by censorship in the Spanish-language publishing industry, which led to the Latin American Boom literature of the 1960s and 1970s.
The Middle Ages have long been famous for spectacular forgeries. Until recently, however, these has been little detailed consideration of the cultural significance of forged texts. In The Making of Me
