Going Viral: Fraud, Personation, and Sensationalism in the Victorian Period and Today
Law, Culture and the Humanities
Published online on January 26, 2026
Abstract
Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print.
Drawing on Zadie Smith’s suggestion in her novel,The Fraud(2023), that we share Victorians’ interest in fraudulent figures, this essay argues that we have much in common with Victorians when it comes to anxieties around personation and fraud. Beginning ...
Drawing on Zadie Smith’s suggestion in her novel,The Fraud(2023), that we share Victorians’ interest in fraudulent figures, this essay argues that we have much in common with Victorians when it comes to anxieties around personation and fraud. Beginning ...