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The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in the Eighteenth Century

Ian Keable

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Description:In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring thata man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a Londontheatre. Although the crowds turned up in their hundreds towitness the trick, the performer didn’t. Over the followingdecades, elaborate jokes and fanciful tales would continue tobamboozle people across England.In The Century of Deception, magician and historian Ian Keabletells the engrossing stories of these eighteenth-century hoaxesand those who were duped by them. The English public werehoodwinked time and time again, swallowing whole tales ofrapping ghosts, a woman who gave birth to rabbits, a levitatingFrenchman in a Chinese Temple and outrageous astrologicalpredictions. Not only were the hoaxes widely influential,drawing in celebrities such as Samuel Johnson, BenjaminFranklin and Jonathan Swift, but they also inflamed concernsabout ‘English credulity’.‘Fake news’, ‘going viral’ and ‘social media’ may be modernterms, but as this entertaining, eye-opening book shows,these concepts have been with us for centuries.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in the Eighteenth Century. To get started finding The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in the Eighteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Saqi Books

Release: 2021

ISBN: 1908906448

Description: In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring thata man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a Londontheatre. Although the crowds turned up in their hundreds towitness the trick, the performer didn’t. Over the followingdecades, elaborate jokes and fanciful tales would continue tobamboozle people across England.In The Century of Deception, magician and historian Ian Keabletells the engrossing stories of these eighteenth-century hoaxesand those who were duped by them. The English public werehoodwinked time and time again, swallowing whole tales ofrapping ghosts, a woman who gave birth to rabbits, a levitatingFrenchman in a Chinese Temple and outrageous astrologicalpredictions. Not only were the hoaxes widely influential,drawing in celebrities such as Samuel Johnson, BenjaminFranklin and Jonathan Swift, but they also inflamed concernsabout ‘English credulity’.‘Fake news’, ‘going viral’ and ‘social media’ may be modernterms, but as this entertaining, eye-opening book shows,these concepts have been with us for centuries.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in the Eighteenth Century. To get started finding The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in the Eighteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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