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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... follow the rules of the epic . But Moor was forced to add the Aristotelian dictum that the poet should only describe what might happen , the historian what did happen.11 Samuel Johnson did not see the historian William Robertson's ...
... follow the rules of the epic . But Moor was forced to add the Aristotelian dictum that the poet should only describe what might happen , the historian what did happen.11 Samuel Johnson did not see the historian William Robertson's ...
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... follow a standard historical route : Greece , Rome , Florence , and Britain . Johnson's Dictionary was a nationalist enterprise . The British Empire was rapidly expanding . Among historians , the most difficult task in this ...
... follow a standard historical route : Greece , Rome , Florence , and Britain . Johnson's Dictionary was a nationalist enterprise . The British Empire was rapidly expanding . Among historians , the most difficult task in this ...
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... follow . Smith's Gallic poems are so obviously Ossianic pastiches that they are reserved for chapter 5 . There are doubts too about Edward Jones ' Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards : Preserved by Tradition and Authentic ...
... follow . Smith's Gallic poems are so obviously Ossianic pastiches that they are reserved for chapter 5 . There are doubts too about Edward Jones ' Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards : Preserved by Tradition and Authentic ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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