False Formosan - George Psalmanazar and the Eighteenth-Century Experiment of Identity
| Author: | Swiderski, Richard | |
| Year: | 1991 | |
| Pages: | 280 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-9858-3 978-0-7734-9858-7 | |
| Price: | $199.95 + shipping | |
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A major reconsideration of the Assyrian Christian scholar and confidence man George Psalmanazar who dazzled eighteenth-century London in the disguise of a Chinese savant. Swiderski explores the fabulism and credulity of the time as well as analyzing the scientific curiosity aroused by Psalmanazar's writings.