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OverviewWhy was the Renaissance also the golden age of forgery? Forgery is an eternal problem. In literature and the writing of history, suspiciously attributed texts can be uniquely revealing when subjected to a nuanced critique. False and spurious writings impinge on social and political realities to a degree rarely confronted by the biographical criticism of yesteryear. They deserve a more critical reading of the sort far more often bestowed on canonical works of poetry and prose fiction. The first comprehensive treatment of literary and historiographical forgery to appear in a quarter of a century, Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450–1800 goes well beyond questions of authorship, spotlighting the imaginative vitality of forgery and its sinister impact on genuine scholarship. This volume demonstrates that early modern forgery was a literary tradition in its own right, with distinctive connections to politics, Greek and Roman classics, religion, philosophy, and modern literature. The thirteen essays draw immediate inspiration from Johns Hopkins University’s acquisition of the Bibliotheca Fictiva, the world’s premier research collection dedicated exclusively to the subject of literary forgery, which consists of several thousand rare books and unique manuscript materials from the early modern period and beyond. The early modern explosion in forgery of all kinds—particularly in the kindred documentary fields of literary and archaeological falsification—was the most visible symptom of a dramatic shift in attitudes toward historical evidence and in the relation of texts to contemporary society. The authors capture the impact of this evolution within many fundamental cultural transformations, including the rise of print, changing tastes and fortunes of the literary marketplace, and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. Contributors: Frederic Clark, James Coleman, Richard Cooper, Arthur Freeman, Anthony Grafton, A. Katie Harris, Earle A. Havens, Jack Lynch, Shana D. O’Connell, Ingrid Rowland, Walter Stephens, Elly Truitt, Kate Tunstall Full Product DetailsAuthor: Walter Stephens (Charles S Singleton Professor of italian Studies, The Johns Hopkins University) , Earle A. Havens (Curator of Rare Books, Johns Hopkins University) , Janet E. Gomez (Georgetown University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9781421426877ISBN 10: 1421426870 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 12 March 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Forgery's Valhalla Walter Stephens and Earle A. Havens 1. Hoax and Forgery, Whimsy and Fraud: Taxonomic Reflections on the Bibliotheca Fictiva Arthur Freeman 2. Babelic Confusion: Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva Earle A. Havens 3. Forgery, Misattribution, and a Case of Secondary Pseudonymity: Aethicus Ister's Cosmographia and Its Early Modern Multiplications Frederic Clark 4. Marvelous History: Authority and Credibility in Medieval Histories of Troy E. R. Truitt 5. Forging Relations between East and West: The Invented Letters of Sultan Mehmed II James K. Coleman 6. Fashioning Noah: How a Forger Turned an Etruscan God into a Biblical Figure Shana D. O'Connell 7. Annius of Viterbo as a Student of the Jews: The Sources of His Information Anthony Grafton 8. Exposing the Archforger: Annius of Viterbo's First Master Critic Walter Stephens 9. Inventing Gallic Antiquities in Renaissance France Richard Cooper 10. Material and Textual Forgery in the Lead Books of Granada A. Katie Harris 11. Melchior Inchofer, S.J., and the Letter of the Virgin Mary to the Citizens of Messina Ingrid D. Rowland 12. ""Make Way for the Ghost!"" Forgery, Patriotic Mythology, and the Living Dead Kate E. Tunstall 13. England's Ireland, Ireland's England: William Henry Ireland's National Offense Jack Lynch Contributors Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationWalter Stephens is the Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Earle A. Havens is the Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts in the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. Janet E. Gomez earned her PhD in Italian from Johns Hopkins University. Together, the three served as co-curators of the 2014 rare book exhibition of the Bibliotheca Fictiva collection and accompanying catalogue, Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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