Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-century France : Frauds, Hoaxes, and Counterfeits (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction: caveat lector; Violent hoaxes: Merimee and the booby-trapped text; Political prostheses and imperial imposters; The ghosts of kings; Balzac's skillful disguise; Vidocq and the image of the counterfeit; False genders: Sand's Gabriel; Baudelaire and the originality of the copy; National effigies and counterfeits: Baudelaire's Pauvre Belgique!; Conclusions: futures of the false; Bibliography; Index.