Fake it : fictions of forgery / Mark Osteen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osteen, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

Forgery in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.

Summary:

"This book investigates fictional forgeries, from Thomas Chatterton's phony "medieval" poems written in the eighteenth century, to forged documents attributed to Shakespeare created in the nineteenth century, to Clifford Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Fake Lit: Mockeries

1. Thomas Chatterton's Ghosts

2. "What King Forged I?" Fathers, Frauds, And The Works Of William Fakespeare

3. Hideous Progeny: Forgery, Frankenstein, And Peter Carey's My Life As A Fake

4. Fuck It: Percival Everett's Fake Book

pt. II Fake Art: Masks

5. Original Sins: Painting The Perfect Fake In The Recognitions

6. But Is It Art? Orson Welles's Cubist Portrait Of The Forger In F For Fake

7. Misrecognizing Harry: The Blazing World's Hermaphroditic Polyphony.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Osteen, Mark. Fake it

ISBN:

9780813946269

0813946263

9780813946276

0813946271

OCLC:

1243909092

Publisher Number:

99988357138