Imposture

A kind of comfort it is, however, to see that "Imposture" _has_ fallen openly "bankrupt," here as everywhere else in our old world; that no dexterity of human tinkering, with all the Parliamentary Eloquence and Elective

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838

Prince, that notwithstanding his appearing there in Person, a great Party would not believe him living, but that it was an Imposture, and a Juggle of the King, and others, in Opposition to some other Princes of the Blood

Exilius 2008

In fact, as in Imposture, the whereabouts of the true self are difficult to find.

The Little Professor: 2008

To begin with, A Quiet Adjustment shares several thematic concerns with Imposture.

The Little Professor: 2008

To begin with, A Quiet Adjustment shares several thematic concerns with Imposture.

A Quiet Adjustment 2008

At first glance, it seems like a radical departure from the first novel, Imposture, which I discussed last year: where Imposture overtly proclaimed its affinities with the nineteenth-century Gothic and historical novel traditions, beginning with its supposed status as a found manuscript, A Quiet Adjustment initially looks like a realist historical novel in the biographical mode.

A Quiet Adjustment 2008

At first glance, it seems like a radical departure from the first novel, Imposture, which I discussed last year: where Imposture overtly proclaimed its affinities with the nineteenth-century Gothic and historical novel traditions, beginning with its supposed status as a found manuscript, A Quiet Adjustment initially looks like a realist historical novel in the biographical mode.

The Little Professor: 2008

In fact, as in Imposture, the whereabouts of the true self are difficult to find.

A Quiet Adjustment 2008

While Imposture thus joins the already quite extensive list of novels about or featuring Byron*, its fascination with all kinds of fakery fake identities, authorial fakery, etc. also allies it with recent novels like Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake or John Banville's Shroud.

The Little Professor: 2007

Appropriately enough, Imposture opens with a nod to early nineteenth-century novelistic conventions.

The Little Professor: 2007