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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... look toward Walter Scott and the historical novel . Eric Rothstein's recent evaluation of Chatterton is indicative of the lapsed state of the forgeries : • Using a collection of old words chosen from glossaries and diction- aries , a ...
... look toward Walter Scott and the historical novel . Eric Rothstein's recent evaluation of Chatterton is indicative of the lapsed state of the forgeries : • Using a collection of old words chosen from glossaries and diction- aries , a ...
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... looks like a truism , yet was unknown to writers of history . . . that the bygone ages of the world were actually ... look upon M'pherson's Fingal to be as gross an imposition as ever the world was troubled with . Had it really been ...
... looks like a truism , yet was unknown to writers of history . . . that the bygone ages of the world were actually ... look upon M'pherson's Fingal to be as gross an imposition as ever the world was troubled with . Had it really been ...
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... look briefly at the relations of the forgeries to other anthologists of the late eighteenth century . Evan Evans ' Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards eventually appeared in 1764 , one year before the Reliques . The ...
... look briefly at the relations of the forgeries to other anthologists of the late eighteenth century . Evan Evans ' Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards eventually appeared in 1764 , one year before the Reliques . The ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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