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The Forger's Shadow
Nick Groom
其他書名
How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature
出版Picador, 2003
ISBN03303743389780330374330
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rKQCHAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Whilst defining the very meaning of forgery, Nick Groom ranges from the economic forgery of the 18th century, where the forgery of a #100 banknote could mean death by hanging, to the formation of literary copyright which was established not in order to protect the nation's authors but rather as a way of censoring them. haunted both our literature and our imaginations for years. There is Chatterton, the fatal model for the Romantic perceived as a mad, unrecognized and suicidal genius but one whose supposedly tragic life was as much a myth as the 15th-century monk he invented. Or there is Macpherson, constantly at war with Samuel Johnson, who edited (or wrote, or indeed forged) the lost epics of a 3rd-century Celtic bard. And there is the forger William Henry Ireland who not only wrote two new and disastrous Shakespeare plays but also forged a legal document to make sure he benefited from the royalties. Finally, there is the famous Wainewright who was a supreme forger in practically every sphere, whose effect on literature from Dickens to Wilde to the 21st century cannot be underestimated.