Forgery: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 9 November 2007

Baines, Paul. The House of Forgery in Eighteenth Century Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Brown, Thomas. "Did the U.S. Army Distribute Smallpox Blankets to Indians? Fab rication and Falsification in Ward Churchill's Genocide Rhetoric." Plagiary 1.9 (2006): 1-30.

Clanchy, M.T. From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307. London: Arnold, 1979.

Constable, Giles. "Forgery and Plagiarism in the Middle Ages." Archiv fur Diplomatik, Schriftgeschichte, Siegel-und Wappenkunde 29 (1983): 1-41.

Cramer, Clayton E. "Why Footnotes Matter: Checking Arming America's Claims." Plagiary 1.11 (2006): 1-31.

Curley, Thomas M. "Johnson's Last Word on Ossian: Ghostwriting for William Shaw." Aberdeen and the Enlightenment: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Aberdeen. Ed. Jennifer J. Carter and Joan H. Pittock. 1987.

Gaskill, Howard, ed. Ossian Revisited. Columbia UP, 1991.

Groom, Nick. The Forger's Shadow. London: Picador, 2002.

Levy, Ellen. "Love and Madness: A Forgery Too True." Plagiary 1.8 (2006): 1-12.

Randall, Marilyn. "Appropriate(d) Discourse: Plagiarism and Decolonization." New Literary History 22 (1991): 525-41.

Rendell, Kenneth W. Forging History: The Detection of Fake Letters and Documents. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P., 1994.

Robillard, Amy E., and Ron Fortune. "Toward a New Content for Writing Courses: Literary Forgery, Plagiarism, and the Production of Belief." JAC 27/1-2 (2007): 185-210.

Scott, Walter. "Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad." Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Rev. and ed. T.F. Henderson. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1932. Vol. 4. 10-11.

Stafford, Fiona. The Sublime Savage: A Study of James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian. Edinburgh UP, 1988.

Stewart, Susan. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.

Worrell, Simon. The Poet and the Murderer. Plume, 2003.