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 59
... Virtue , " 41 one is hard pushed to find any . The queen is saved twice from rape by the arch - Druid , who commands great authority . Neither the Druid nor his shadow the bard receive any serious imag- inative treatment in these dramas ...
... Virtue , " 41 one is hard pushed to find any . The queen is saved twice from rape by the arch - Druid , who commands great authority . Neither the Druid nor his shadow the bard receive any serious imag- inative treatment in these dramas ...
Page 97
... the pieces being in Ireland , suggested first to them a hint , of making both heroes and poets natives of that Island . ( Pp . xxxiii - iv ) Macpherson made a virtue out of the Innes - style Ossian : The Voice of the Past 97.
... the pieces being in Ireland , suggested first to them a hint , of making both heroes and poets natives of that Island . ( Pp . xxxiii - iv ) Macpherson made a virtue out of the Innes - style Ossian : The Voice of the Past 97.
Page 128
... virtue of Donald Taylor's Works is that it prints many facsimiles of Chatterton's MSS ( see the frontispiece to vol- ume one for part of " Craishes Herauldry ” ) . These plates show that the antiquarian works exhibit better than any ...
... virtue of Donald Taylor's Works is that it prints many facsimiles of Chatterton's MSS ( see the frontispiece to vol- ume one for part of " Craishes Herauldry ” ) . These plates show that the antiquarian works exhibit better than any ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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