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From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this pioneering book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. Stewart focuses on specific cases of ""crimes of writing""--the forgeries of George Psalmanazar, the production of ""fakelore,"" the ""ballad scandals"" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the imposture of Thomas Chatterton, and contemporary legislation regarding graffiti and pornography.

Law and literature. --- Literary forgeries and mystifications. --- Mimesis in literature. --- Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics). --- Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics) --- Literature and law --- Literature --- Aesthetics --- Art and literature --- Humanism in art --- Representation (Literature) --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- Frauds, Literary --- Literary frauds --- Literary hoaxes --- Literary mystifications --- Mystifications, Literary --- Authorship --- Errors and blunders, Literary --- Forgery --- Hoaxes --- Literary curiosa --- Anonyms and pseudonyms --- Imaginary books and libraries --- Pasticcio