Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Jack Lynch

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1138261947

ISBN13:9781138261945

Release Date:November 2016

Publisher:Routledge

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.74 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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