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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... was again a modification of Locke's . Faith was put in literary sources , but Hume did not see these sources as necessarily polluted : though the links are innumerable that connect any original fact 30 THE MAKING OF HISTORY.
... was again a modification of Locke's . Faith was put in literary sources , but Hume did not see these sources as necessarily polluted : though the links are innumerable that connect any original fact 30 THE MAKING OF HISTORY.
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... faith in his histor- ical - fictional powers to recreate culture of the fifteenth century . Only two years after Dryden's comments were published , Sir Richard Blackmore began a series of epic poems , which , from their titles , would ...
... faith in his histor- ical - fictional powers to recreate culture of the fifteenth century . Only two years after Dryden's comments were published , Sir Richard Blackmore began a series of epic poems , which , from their titles , would ...
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... faith in all old MSS in a letter to Lord Hailes in 1765. Percy outlined an ambitious project : I propose to read over all our antient historians , and to examine all the MSS in our public Libraries that have any sort of relation to my ...
... faith in all old MSS in a letter to Lord Hailes in 1765. Percy outlined an ambitious project : I propose to read over all our antient historians , and to examine all the MSS in our public Libraries that have any sort of relation to my ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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