Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-century Britain

Download or read book Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-century Britain written by John T. Lynch and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. While taking up the critical philosophical questions surrounding fraud, Lynch shows that fakery takes us to the heart of eighteenth-century values as they relate to evidence, perception and memory, the relationship between art and life, historicism, and human motivation.