Author: Hylkema, Jacqueline.
Title: The rhetoric of illusion. Persuasion and response in forgery, the arts and other deceptions (1600-1750).
Description: N.pl., [2019]. X,205 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (pictorial boards). Dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor at Leiden University. - - This dissertation consists of five articles and focuses on five cases of deception, all presented and exposed in early modern London: The Originall of Idolatries (1624), Alexander Bendo’s mountebank handbill (1676), George Psalmanazar’s An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (1704), the case of Mary Toft (1726) and the Great Bottle Hoax (1749). These are all examples of creative forgery, fakes without a prototype, that were created to be woven into the fabric of reality.The articles discuss the cases’ dynamics of persuasion and response within their respective cultural contexts but they also explore the wider implicationsof the five cases and what they can tell us about the perception and role offorgery in early modern culture.

Keywords: Art Kunst algemeen / Illusionistische kunst Fakes Kunst algemeen Kunst algemeen / Illusionistische kunst Vervalsingen