The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Faculty Yvonne Jacquette

Yvonne Jacquette

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Howard came from a family with a distinguished history of soldiering: his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran and his brother

the stories reveal a bygone era and many have the ring of true experience

following his emigration to Africa

The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Faculty Yvonne JacquetteBy Aviva BriefelProfessor of English and Cinema Studies The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outside the realm of art. Although art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic traditions,