Forgers and Critics, New Edition: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship - Softcover

Grafton, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691191832 ISBN 13: 9780691191836

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history

In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the “criminal sibling” of criticism, Grafton describes a panorama of remarkable individuals―forgers from classical Greece through the recent past―who produced a variety of splendid triumphs of learning and style, as well as the scholarly detectives who honed the tools of scholarship in attempts to unmask these skillful fakers. In the process, Grafton discloses the extent, the coherence, and the historical interest of two significant and tightly intertwined strands in the Western intellectual tradition.

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From the Back Cover:

Just as it 'takes a thief to catch a thief, ' so the forger greatly aids the search for historical truth, maintains Anthony Grafton in this wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the 'criminal sibling' of criticism, he describes a panorama of remarkable individuals---forgers, from classical Greece through the recent past, who produced a variety of splendid triumphs of learning and style, and scholarly detectives, who honed the tools of scholarship in attempts to unmask these skillful fakers.

About the Author:

Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. His many books include What was History? and Bring Out Your Dead.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0691191832
• ISBN 13: 9780691191836
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192