Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-310) and index.
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Crimes of writing -- Psalmanazar's others -- Notes on distressed genres -- Scandals of the ballad -- The birth of authenticity in the progress of anxiety : fragments of an eighteenth-century daydream -- Exogamous relations : travel writing, the incest prohibition, and Hawthorne's Transformation -- Ceci tuera cela : graffiti as crime and art -- The Marquis de Meese -- Coda : reverse trompe l'oeil : the eruption of the real.
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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. In this way, she emphasizes the issues wh.