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 FictionFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986 - 228 من الصفحات The 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. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-3 من 73
الصفحة 32
... fact " were . The shakiness in the reasoning actually undermined Bolingbroke's apparent complacency , and sug- gested that " the truth of fact " was by no means easy to prove , in literature or history . Thus authentication became a ...
... fact " were . The shakiness in the reasoning actually undermined Bolingbroke's apparent complacency , and sug- gested that " the truth of fact " was by no means easy to prove , in literature or history . Thus authentication became a ...
الصفحة 33
... fact , we do nothing but conceive it , along with a certain feeling , different from attends the mere reveries of the imagination . And when we express our incredulity concerning any fact , we mean , that the argument for the fact ...
... fact , we do nothing but conceive it , along with a certain feeling , different from attends the mere reveries of the imagination . And when we express our incredulity concerning any fact , we mean , that the argument for the fact ...
الصفحة 111
... fact . " 35 Logically , therefore , much of the poem was fiction . But Percy was not concerned to point this out . Macpherson had been equally reticent . Neither did Percy say what portions of the ballad were fact . Like Philips and ...
... fact . " 35 Logically , therefore , much of the poem was fiction . But Percy was not concerned to point this out . Macpherson had been equally reticent . Neither did Percy say what portions of the ballad were fact . Like Philips and ...
المحتوى
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
حقوق النشر | |
6 من الأقسام الأخرى غير ظاهرة
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Aella ancient poetry anthologists anthology antiquarian Antiquary antiquity authentic ballad bard bardic Battle of Hastynges Bristol Britain Brystowe Tragedie Canynge Canynge's chapter Chatterton's vision culture Defoe dramatic Druids edition editor eighteenth century English epic Essay Evans fact Fingal Fingalian footnote forgeries Fragment Gallic genuine hero Highland historian historical fiction historiography history writing Homer Hugh Blair Hume Ibid imaginative Innes invention Ireland Irish James Macpherson John Johnson Joseph Ritson Joseph Warton King later letters literary literature Llywarch Hen Locke's London Macpher Macpherson and Chatterton minstrel modern narrative novel Oldbuck oral original Ossian past Percy Percy's piece play poem poet poetical preface present quoted records Redcliff reference regression Reliques Ritson Rowley's Saxon Scotland Scottish social history song sources story Temora Thomas Chatterton Thomas Percy Thomas Rowley tion translation transmission truth Turner verse voice vols Vortigern Warton Waverley Waverley novels William