Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800

Folger bibliographic ID: 357964
Folger call number: PN171.F6 L58 2018
Folger holdings ID: 506195

"This book is dedicated to literary forgeries in Europe from the early modern period through the Enlightenment. The organizing principle of the volume is the study of literary and historiographical forgery--in print and manuscripts, not art forgery or counterfeiting--from classical and biblical antiquity to the close of the early modern period. Particular emphasis is paid to the unprecedented proliferation of patriotic mythologies from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment periods, advancing novel claims of ancient authority, genealogical precedence, and historically based religio-political legitimacy in the face of latter-day historical changes within Western culture. Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800 is the first in a quarter century to attempt to treat the subject of literary and historiographical forgery comprehensively, as an area of scholarly research in its own right"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction. Walter Stephens and Earle Havens, "Forgery's Valhalla" -- Arthur Freeman, "Hoax and forgery, whimsy and fraud: taxonomic reflections on the Bibliotheca fictiva" -- Earle Havens, "Babelic confusion: literary forgery and the Bibliotheca fictiva" -- Frederic Clark, "Forgery, misattribution, and a case of secondary pseudonymity: Aethicus Ister's Cosmography and its early modern multiplications" -- Elly Truitt, "Marvelous history: authority and credibility in medieval histories of Troy" -- James Coleman, "Forging relations between East and West: the invented letters of Sultan Mehmed II" -- Shana D. O'Connell, "Fashioning Noah: how a forger turned an Etruscan god into a Biblical figure" -- Anthony Grafton, "Annius of Viterbo as a student of the Jews: the sources of his information" -- Walter Stephens, "'A certain empty and unknown writer': Gaspar Barreiros dismantles Annius of Viterbo's Antiquities" -- Richard Cooper, "Inventing Gallic antiquities in Renaissance France" -- A. Katie Harris, "Material and textual forgery in the Lead books of Granada" -- Ingrid Rowland, "Melchior Inchofer, S.J. and the letter of the Virgin Mary to the citizens of Messina" -- Kate Tunstall, "'Make way for the ghost!' Forgery, patriotic mythology, and the living dead" -- Jack Lynch, "England's Ireland, Ireland's England: William Henry Ireland's national offense"

Extended title: Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800 / edited by Walter Stephens and Earle A. Havens ; assisted by Janet E. Gomez

Literary forgeries and mystifications European literature

editor: Stephens, Walter, 1949-
editor: Havens, Earle, 1971-
contributor: Gomez, Janet