Amis fraudeurs
Scott Carpenter
Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-Century France: Frauds, Hoaxes, and Counterfeits,
Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2009, 204 p.
Focusing particularly on the aesthetics of fraudulence in works by Mérimée, Balzac, Baudelaire, Vidocq, Sand, and others, Scott Carpenter analyzes manifestations of the false in nineteenth-century French literature. Placing literary representations within the context of cultural phenomena such as caricature, political history, and ceremonial events, Carpenter argues that the problem of fraudulence involves a blurring of limits between hitherto discrete categories, challenging Romantic notions of authenticity and sincerity. Lire la suite »