TY - BOOK ID - 129236456 TI - Sins against science : the scientific media hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and others PY - 2006 SN - 9780791468784 PB - Albany (N.Y.) : State university of New York press, DB - UniCat KW - Falschmeldung. KW - Forschungsergebnis. KW - Impostors and imposture in literature. KW - Impostors and imposture in literature. KW - Impostors and imposture in literature. KW - Literatur. KW - Naturwissenschaften. KW - Science news. KW - Science news. KW - Science news. KW - Scientific literature. KW - Scientific literature. KW - Scientific literature. KW - Technik. KW - Wissenschaftliche Literatur. KW - imposture KW - imposture KW - Littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) KW - Science KW - 1880 KW - Science KW - 1880 KW - De Quille, Dan, KW - De Quille, Dan. KW - Poe, Edgar Allan, KW - Poe, Edgar Allan. KW - Twain, Mark, KW - Twain, Mark. KW - Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer KW - Geschichte 1830-1880. KW - USA. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129236456 AB - "Lynda Walsh explores a provocative era in American history - the proliferation of fake news stories about scientific and technological discoveries from 1830 to 1880. These hoaxes, which fooled thousands of readers, offer a first-hand look at an intriguing guerilla tactic in the historical struggle between arts and sciences in America. Focusing on the hoaxes of Richard Adams Locke, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille, the author combines rhetorical hermeneutics, linguistic pragmatics, and reader-response theory to answer three primary questions: How did the hoaxes work? What were the hoaxers trying to accomplish? And - what is a hoax?"--Jacket. ER -