Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figure -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Sceptical Reading in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries -- 2 The Strange Finding Out of Moses his Tombe: Strategies and Motives for Hoaxing -- 3 'Florishing Lyes': Coffee-House Wit in the Restoration -- 4 More Shams Still: Reading in the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis -- 5 News, Novels and Imposture, 1688-1702 -- 6 Defoe and his 'Ill-disposed' Readers 7 Swift's Bites: Eighteenth-Century Raillery in Theory and Practice -- 8 Bubbling Sentiments: Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Shamela -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index
