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  Forgers and Critics Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship by Grafton
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Make/Author/Artist: Anthony Grafton
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: FORGERS

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Dionysus the Renegade, Erasmus, James MacPherson (Ossian), Thomas Chatterton, Edmond Backhouse, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion...

For 2,500 years and more, forgery has amused its uninvolved observers, enraged its humiliated victims, flourished as a literary genre and most oddly of all, stimulated vital innovations in the technical methods of scholars.

Just as it takes a thief to catch a thief, so the forger greatly aids the search for historical truth, maintain Anthony Grafton in this wide ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship.

Labelling forgery the criminal sibling of criticism, he describes a panorama of remarkable individuals -- forgers, from Classical Greece through the recent past who produced a variety of splendid triumphs of learning and style, and scholarly detectives who honed the tools of scholarship in attempts to unmask these skillful fakers.

In the process the discloses the extent, the coherence, and the historical interest of two significant and tightly intertwined strands in the Western intellectual tradition.

CONDITION: Hard Cover with DJ, Publisher: Collins & Brown Limited 1990, 158 pages. USED lightly. VG+

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