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Impostures: Robert Browning and the poetics of forgery.(an evaluation of the work of )(Critical Essay)
From: Studies in the Literary Imagination
Date: 20020922
Author:Blanton, C.D.
The true has no value beyond the sham: As well the counter as coin, I submit.
--Robert Browning The Statue and the Bust (21)
FORGERY AND FUTURITY
The belated revelation--modestly promulgated in 1934 by John Carter and Graham Pollard under the specter of a libel action--that scores of "rare" and collectible editions had in fact been forged and surreptitiously dispersed among the catalogues of universities, libraries, and auction houses in both Britain and America codified a minor canon of Victorian literature, broad enough to include the major figures of any ...
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