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9780719079849

Impostures in Early Modern England Representations and Perceptions of Fraudulent Identities

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    9780719079849

  • ISBN10:

    0719079845

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-03-15
  • Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

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Summary

Impostors and impostures featured prominently in the political, social and religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as impostor, and why? This book offers the first full-scale analysis of an important and multifaceted phenomenon. Using approaches drawn from historical anthropology and micro-history, it investigates changes and continuities within the impostor phenomenon from 1500 to the late eighteenth century, exploring the variety of representations and perceptions of impostors and their deeper meanings within the specific contexts of social, political, religious, institutional and cultural change. Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of sources, from judicial archives and other official records to chronicles, newspapers, ballads, pamphlets and autobi ographical writings. Given that identity is never fixed, but involves a performative dimension, changing over time and space, Impostures in early modern England looks at the specific factors which constitute identity in a particular context, and asks why certain characteristics of an allegedly false identity were regarded as fake. This closely argued and pioneering book will be of interest to specialists, students and anyone concerned with the timeless questions of why and how individuals fashion, re-fashion and make sense of their selves.

Author Biography

Tobias B. Hug is Associate Fellow of the History Department at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. ix
Abbreviationsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
Identifying impostures in early modern England
Counterfeit beggars, bogus cunning folic and bigamistsp. 17
Tricksters and officialdom - bogus officials and forgersp. 34
Quacks - all notorious medical impostors?p. 48
Prophets and visionaries, possessed and exorcists - all religious impostors?p. 64
'The unfortunate whose kingdom is not of this world' -political imposturesp. 87
Ethnic impostorsp. 110
Gentleman impostorsp. 130
Imposture and autobiography
The self-representation and self-perception of William Fuller (1670-1733)p. 155
Conclusionp. 204
Bibliographyp. 211
Indexp. 237
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