Download or read book Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture written by Sara Malton and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Sara Malton insists that we fully account for the prominence of forgery in the nineteenth-century cultural imagination. Examining a range of works from Dickens to Wilde, she considers how social and legal contexts inform the shifting representation of the crime and its varied perpetrators throughout the nineteenth century. Distinct in its historical attentiveness, Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture illuminates the breadth of cultural issues to which this “crime of the first magnitude” is linked.