Download or read book Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture written by S. Malton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malton examines the literary and cultural representation of the financial crime of forgery from the time of massive executions of forgers during the early nineteenth century to the forger's emergence as the ultimate criminal aesthete at the fin-de-siècle.