The Charlatans

Henry Sless ()
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Chapter Chapter 5 in Merchant Princes and Charlatans or Makers of Money?, 2022, pp 115-149 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Lauded by their public when they brought them financial fortune, the charlatans were attacked when events revealed the fraudulent foundations of their rise to fame. Vanity Fair, which dominates much of the output of depictions of financiers of the period, portrays the great British fraudsters of the nineteenth century (Grant, Hooley, Balfour) in admiring mode at the height of their fame—with one single exception (that of the fraudster, Harry Benson) no fraudster is depicted negatively when their fortunes had failed. It is the comic periodicals (particularly in the case of Hooley and Balfour) which portray the havoc of their corrupt financial practices. The period reflects an increasing coverage of white-collar criminal trials in the realistic periodicals. Using juxtaposed settings of various elements of the legal process, these periodicals provided an emotional (though not negative) reaction to their exploits.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86604-4_5

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