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Thomas Chatterton (1752-70) was only seventeen when he died of arsenic poisoning. Among his family and friends he was known as a versifier with a fascination for medieval manuscripts, but none suspected the true scope of his work. At eleven, he was already writing poetry, and by the end of his life his love poems, eclogues and forged medieval pieces numbered in the hundreds. They were to influence the Romantics for decades after his death. This three-volume collection of his work, edited by Joseph Cottle and Robert Southey, first appeared in 1803. Volume 2 contains the Rowley poems, for which Chatterton is best known. Ironically, they were never published under his own name in his lifetime: he claimed that the poems were transcripts he had taken from the work of Thomas Rowley, a fifteenth-century monk. The value of these ambitious forgeries is still underappreciated.

English poetry --- Literary forgeries and mystifications. --- 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

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"This book investigates fictional forgeries, from Thomas Chatterton's phony "medieval" poems written in the eighteenth century, to forged documents attributed to Shakespeare created in the nineteenth century, to Clifford Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes in the twentieth century"--

Literary forgeries and mystifications. --- Forgery 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

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Mystifier quelqu’un, si les mots ont un sens, c’est l’initier. Déconcertante étymologie qui semble faire du bluff, du leurre, voire du mensonge, un rituel de dessillement ! Tout en faisant fond sur les acquis de la poétique moderne, une étude esthétique de la mystification littéraire doit alors prendre en compte les conditions historiques – sinon anecdotiques – de sa production et de sa réception, car seule cette dernière – et la croyance dont elle s’accommode – donne corps au simulacre, fût-ce pour en dénoncer après coup la facticité.En théorie, chaque forme de fausse signature n’est jamais que le résultat d’une combinatoire, somme toute élémentaire, entre un nom et un texte ; le travestissement de ceux-ci, constitutif des supercheries, se laisse donc décrire au moyen de typologies parallèles. Mais le processus mystificateur n’entre en action que si ces manipulations déceptives sont suivies d’un effet précis : en l’occurrence, d’une falsification de la lecture même. Autant que de procédés d’écriture, c’est d’une stratégie de publication que dépend toute mystification. Le jeu en est rarement absent, qui met à l’épreuve l’autorité des discours ; et la littérature, si elle risque gros, ne s’y trouve pas forcément disqualifiée.

Thematology --- Literary forgeries and mystifications --- Faux et supercheries littéraires --- Frauds, Literary --- Literary frauds --- Literary mystifications --- Mystifications, Literary --- Authorship --- Errors and blunders, Literary --- Forgery --- Literary curiosa --- Anonyms and pseudonyms --- Imaginary books and libraries --- Pasticcio --- Literary forgeries and mystifications. --- Faux et supercheries littéraires --- Literary hoaxes --- Hoaxes --- Mystifications litteraires

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Textual Deceptions considers a wide range of twentieth- and twenty-first century literary works in which the relationship between text and author is not what it seems. By exploring a variety of examples of false or embellished memoirs, purportedly autobiographical novels that are in fact thoroughly fictional, as well as bogus authorial personae, Sue Vice discusses whether it is possible to judge veracity by means of textual clues alone. The accounts featured range from 'misery memoirs' to Holocaust testimony, poetry purportedly by a Hiroshima survivor, short stories by an Albanian civil servant, fiction by an Aboriginal woman and by a former male prostitute.The book explores both why such texts arise, including consideration of writers' motives as well as pressures from the publishing industry, readers' tastes and contemporary social issues, and also how such texts are constructed, concluding with an assessment of their literary merit. Key Features: * Analyses the background, literary construction and value of a wide range of recent false memoirs and literary deceptions *Considers whether internal detail alone is sufficient to identify the truth-value or otherwise of a text, or if other evidence must be invoked *Explores the contradiction between contemporary literary critics' adherence to Roland Barthes's notion of the 'death of the author', and the apparently supreme importance of the role and biography of authors in the scandals that accompany revelations of deception

Literary forgeries and mystifications. --- Autobiography. --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- 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 --- History and criticism --- Technique

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Fakes and forgeries are objects of fascination. This volume contains a series of thirteen articles devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from the beginnings of writing in Mesopotamia to modern China. The studies emphasise the subtle distinctions conveyed by an established vocabulary relating to the reproduction of ancient artefacts and production of artefacts claiming to be ancient: from copies, replicas and imitations to fakes and forgeries. Fakes are often a response to a demand from the public or scholarly milieu, or even both. The motives behind their production may be economic, political, religious or personal – aspiring to fame or simply playing a joke. Fakes may be revealed by combining the study of their contents, codicological, epigraphic and palaeographic analyses, and scientific investigations. However, certain famous unsolved cases still continue to defy technology today, no matter how advanced it is. Nowadays, one can find fakes in museums and private collections alike; they abound on the antique market, mixed with real artefacts that have often been looted. The scientific community’s attitude to such objects calls for ethical reflection.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. --- Fakes. --- forgeries. --- written artefacts. --- Geographical Subject Heading. --- Forgeries. --- Written artefacts. --- Forgery of manuscripts. --- Forgery of antiquities. --- Literary forgeries and mystifications. --- 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 --- Antiquities, Forgery of --- Archaeological forgeries --- Antiquities --- Art --- Manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Forgery of --- Forgeries