Crimes of writing : problems in the containment of representation / Susan Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Susan, 1952- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

Mimesis in literature.

Law and literature.

Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 353 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this pioneering book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. Stewart focuses on specific cases of ""crimes of writing""--the forgeries of George Psalmanazar, the production of ""fakelore,"" the ""ballad scandals"" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the imposture of Thomas Chatterton, and contemporary legislation regarding graffiti and pornography.

Contents:

Crimes of writing Psalmanazar's others Notes on distressed genres Scandals of the ballad The birth of authenticity in the progress of anxiety : fragments of an eighteenth-century daydream Exogamous relations : travel writing, the incest prohibition, and Hawthorne's Transformation Ceci tuera cela : graffiti as crime and art The Marquis de Meese Coda : reverse trompe l'oeil : the eruption of the real

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-310) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772360-8

1-280-53342-0

0-19-536209-8

OCLC:

252604160