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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Page 128
... passed on to Rowley . Rowley's world , it must be stressed , was the MS world , before the appearance of printed texts . This situation meant that Chatterton like Macpherson could have an editorial monopoly over his “ discoveries ...
... passed on to Rowley . Rowley's world , it must be stressed , was the MS world , before the appearance of printed texts . This situation meant that Chatterton like Macpherson could have an editorial monopoly over his “ discoveries ...
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... passed on to him : Henry , I a tale unfold , Never yet in rime enroll'd , Nor sung nor harp'd in hall or bower ; Which , in my youth's full early flower , A minstrel , sprung of Cornish line , Who spoke of kings from old Locrine ...
... passed on to him : Henry , I a tale unfold , Never yet in rime enroll'd , Nor sung nor harp'd in hall or bower ; Which , in my youth's full early flower , A minstrel , sprung of Cornish line , Who spoke of kings from old Locrine ...
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... passing to the world as that author's composition . ( Pp . 165-6 ; P. 169 ) Turner's observations could easily have been a positive appraisal of how well Macpherson understood the authentic making of the past by poetry . Turner's ...
... passing to the world as that author's composition . ( Pp . 165-6 ; P. 169 ) Turner's observations could easily have been a positive appraisal of how well Macpherson understood the authentic making of the past by poetry . Turner's ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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