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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... fear.38 Philosophical Buttressing Simultaneously with the design of a practical apparatus to authenticate historiography , a philosophical apparatus was being developed by Locke and Hume . It is to be expected that the empiricist ...
... fear.38 Philosophical Buttressing Simultaneously with the design of a practical apparatus to authenticate historiography , a philosophical apparatus was being developed by Locke and Hume . It is to be expected that the empiricist ...
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... fear I may appear prejudiced to my subject , if I look for Nature in this imaginary province , and expect a regard for truth even in the Poet's fable ; yet I cannot help thinking , that where his persons are most ideal , his scene is ...
... fear I may appear prejudiced to my subject , if I look for Nature in this imaginary province , and expect a regard for truth even in the Poet's fable ; yet I cannot help thinking , that where his persons are most ideal , his scene is ...
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... Fear of Scandal or Disgrace , or of losing their Estate , their Pensions and Endowments , and of suffering perhaps some Corporal Correction , the Historians of those Ages were induced to be very exact in their Relations , and to ...
... Fear of Scandal or Disgrace , or of losing their Estate , their Pensions and Endowments , and of suffering perhaps some Corporal Correction , the Historians of those Ages were induced to be very exact in their Relations , and to ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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