TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stephens,Walter
AU  - Havens,Earle
AU  - Gomez,Janet
TI  - Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800
SN  - 9781421426877 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - PN171.F6 L58 2018
U1  - 809 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Literary forgeries and mystifications
KW  - History
KW  - European literature
KW  - Renaissance, 1450-1600
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 17th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -