Victorian Fake News Was WILD
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We haven't had a really fun hoax in a while, have we? Hoaxes in the 19th Century were wild, in part because of the rise of new mass media and new scientific discoveries. Come learn with me about moon beavers, bat men, flying balloons, escaped zoo animals and more!
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Sources
Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes by Melissa Katsoulis
Study Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims by Kevin A. Morrison, Chapter 3– Fake News from Fleet Street Studying Jack the Ripper and the Victorian Periodical Press
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News by Kevin Young
Textual Deceptions: False Memoirs and Literary Hoaxes in the Contemporary Era by Sue Vice
Facetious News Writing, 1833-1883 by Frank Luther Mott
** The English Mercurie Hoax and the Early History of the Newspaper by Markman Ellis
** “I am grateful, and wish to show it”: Charles Dickens and Fake News by William F. Long
The Great Chester Cat Hoax: Creating an Urban Legend in the Anglosphere Press, 1815-1955 by Christopher Smith
Hoax, A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies by Ian Tattersall
Sins Against Science: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain and Others by Lynda Walsh
The Rhetoric of the Scientific Media Hoax: Humanist Interventions in the Popularization of Nineteenth-Century American Science by Lynda Walsh
Meo-Victorianism and Medievalism, Chapter 11– Fake News from Nowhere: William Morris, Steampunk and Postmodern History by Martin A. Danahay
Getting Rich on Invented News by Stephen Tate
Fake News!!!: Poe’s Balloon Story and the Penny Papers! By Lydia G. Fash