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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... soon subjected to another and more severe examina- tion.53 Bolingbroke was dealing with literature's relation to history , with real- ism , that “ appearance of truth . " He could have been referring to the novel with his term ...
... soon subjected to another and more severe examina- tion.53 Bolingbroke was dealing with literature's relation to history , with real- ism , that “ appearance of truth . " He could have been referring to the novel with his term ...
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... Soon after , turbulent events erupted . Macpherson's account of these events was a superb imagining of large - scale social and cultural history , the decline of one culture and the rise of another : The continual wars of the ...
... Soon after , turbulent events erupted . Macpherson's account of these events was a superb imagining of large - scale social and cultural history , the decline of one culture and the rise of another : The continual wars of the ...
Page 161
... soon came to regard Ossian as a " tissue of forgeries . " But that did not mean he was any the less fascinated . As he said to Miss Seward in 1805 : 4 I should be no Scottishman if I had not very attentively considered [ Ossian ] at ...
... soon came to regard Ossian as a " tissue of forgeries . " But that did not mean he was any the less fascinated . As he said to Miss Seward in 1805 : 4 I should be no Scottishman if I had not very attentively considered [ Ossian ] at ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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