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Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Fictions of Finance from Dickens to Wilde
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eBook - PDF
Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Fictions of Finance from Dickens to Wilde
About this book
Malton examines the literary and cultural representation of the financial crime of forgery from the time of massive executions of forgers during the early nineteenth century to the forger's emergence as the ultimate criminal aesthete at the fin-de-siècle.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: False Economies: Reframing Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Culture
- One: Remembering “The Hard Coinage of Punishment”: Forgery and the Legacy of Capital Legislation
- Two: “Only the Ledger Lives”: Financial Disease and Deception at Mid-Century
- Three: “Apocryphal Business”: Eroding Standards of Value at Home and Abroad
- Four: The Criminal Aesthetic: Recapturing the Forger at the Fin-de-Siècle
- Conclusion: Toward Forgery’s Modern Manifestations
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index