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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... God art thou ? no power Divine Enjoys an Empire uncontroll'd like thine , O're Land , and Seas , extends thy boundless sway , And Kings on Earth , and Gods in Heav'n Obey , 39 Again , the dominance of a love plot need not 58 THE MAKING ...
... God art thou ? no power Divine Enjoys an Empire uncontroll'd like thine , O're Land , and Seas , extends thy boundless sway , And Kings on Earth , and Gods in Heav'n Obey , 39 Again , the dominance of a love plot need not 58 THE MAKING ...
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... God- odin.29 Chapter 2 showed how great was the pressure for a poem of national history : the epic . Macpherson saw that the value of the " orig- inal " or ancient , primary epic was superior to the modern imitation . An editor could ...
... God- odin.29 Chapter 2 showed how great was the pressure for a poem of national history : the epic . Macpherson saw that the value of the " orig- inal " or ancient , primary epic was superior to the modern imitation . An editor could ...
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... God . There were characteristic Macphersonic inter - allusions however : " noble were his ancestors , as the palace of the great Kenric " ( 11. 23-24 ) ; " his soul was astonished , as the Britons who fled before the sword of Kenric ...
... God . There were characteristic Macphersonic inter - allusions however : " noble were his ancestors , as the palace of the great Kenric " ( 11. 23-24 ) ; " his soul was astonished , as the Britons who fled before the sword of Kenric ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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