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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... son's manner of making the past was summed up by the lines The sage historic muse Should next conduct us through the deeps of time . ( Winter , 11 587-88 ) 88 The forgeries broke out of this artifice . The " historic muse " became the ...
... son's manner of making the past was summed up by the lines The sage historic muse Should next conduct us through the deeps of time . ( Winter , 11 587-88 ) 88 The forgeries broke out of this artifice . The " historic muse " became the ...
Page 81
... son of Alpin , memory wounds the aged . Of former times are my thoughts ; my thoughts are of the noble Fingal . The ... sons of the hill , we covered this heath with our youth . Fingal the mighty was here , and Oscur , my son , great in ...
... son of Alpin , memory wounds the aged . Of former times are my thoughts ; my thoughts are of the noble Fingal . The ... sons of the hill , we covered this heath with our youth . Fingal the mighty was here , and Oscur , my son , great in ...
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... son of Fingal , " which followed the preface to Fingal , the relevance to the historical vision of Macpher- son's participation in nationalist historiography became clear . The “ Dissertation " opened with a refutation of the idea that ...
... son of Fingal , " which followed the preface to Fingal , the relevance to the historical vision of Macpher- son's participation in nationalist historiography became clear . The “ Dissertation " opened with a refutation of the idea that ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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