The Making of History: A Study of the Literary Forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton in Relation to Eighteenth-century Ideas of History and FictionThe literary forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton are studied within the context of the eighteenth-century debate about the validity of using literature as a historical source and history as a literary topic. |
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... fair field of expatiating in the dark ages of the remote antiquity , under the conduct of their ignorant and venal guides the bards , famous for flattering their patrons with ancient pedigrees , and whole nations with succes- sions of ...
... fair field of expatiating in the dark ages of the remote antiquity , under the conduct of their ignorant and venal guides the bards , famous for flattering their patrons with ancient pedigrees , and whole nations with succes- sions of ...
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... Fair Inconstant ( 1710 ) , Aaron Hill announced " To night our Author tells an English Story , / And brings your Ancestors to Life before ye . " The reference , however , was simply to drama's being a live medium . As works of ...
... Fair Inconstant ( 1710 ) , Aaron Hill announced " To night our Author tells an English Story , / And brings your Ancestors to Life before ye . " The reference , however , was simply to drama's being a live medium . As works of ...
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... fair MS in good preservation . ( p . 21 ) 8. In " The Chyrche Oratorie of the Calendaryes " ( Works , 1 : 155 ) , Chatterton exploited the catastrophic element inherent in library collections of MSS : conflagration . Donald Taylor ...
... fair MS in good preservation . ( p . 21 ) 8. In " The Chyrche Oratorie of the Calendaryes " ( Works , 1 : 155 ) , Chatterton exploited the catastrophic element inherent in library collections of MSS : conflagration . Donald Taylor ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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