Fakes and forgeries / edited by Peter Knight and Jonathan Long.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-219).

Introduction : faking it / Peter Knight and Jonathan Long -- On lying as a way of knowing : a portrait of "The portrait of Mr. W.H." / Nicholas Frankel -- Sacred objects/illusory idols : the fake in Freud's "The Moses of Michelangelo" / Aviva Briefel -- Pip's counterfeit money : forgery and great expectations / Simon James -- Duplicitous games : faked authorship from the eighteenth to the twentieth century / Barbara Schaff -- Faking biography : authorial deception by Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Andrew Motion / Richard Littlejohns -- Hildesheimer's art of literary mystification / Julia Abramson -- Wolfgang the liar? : "unmasking" the "author" of a Holocaust memoir / Simon Ward -- Inventing the French resistance : heroes, traitors and fakers in the resistance novel and memoir / Christopher Lloyd -- Pious frauds and perjurers : Iolo Morganwg's truth against the world / Mary-Ann Constantine -- Elizabeth Durack, Eddie Burrup and the art of identification / Marguerite Nolan -- George Psalmanazar, pretended Asian / Michael Keevak -- Plagiarism, passing and performance : Adah Isaacs Menken's Jewish poetry / Gregory Eiselein -- "Passing" over : the passing novel and America's inauthentic narratives of race / Neil Brooks.