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. |
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الصفحة 53
... . A pretense that real history was being used could be maintained easily , because no data were available to check the narrative's veracity . This line of reason- ing came to a head in the preface to William The Literary Impetus 53.
... . A pretense that real history was being used could be maintained easily , because no data were available to check the narrative's veracity . This line of reason- ing came to a head in the preface to William The Literary Impetus 53.
الصفحة 157
... head ; And on its sides the torrents gray Shone to the morning's orient ray . ( 11. 95-106 ) The transmission was preserved in warm detail . The bard's song had the authority of felt experience . The making of history was an issue ...
... head ; And on its sides the torrents gray Shone to the morning's orient ray . ( 11. 95-106 ) The transmission was preserved in warm detail . The bard's song had the authority of felt experience . The making of history was an issue ...
الصفحة 170
... head and shoulders . . . . Perhaps I have sinned in this way myself . . . but I have repented of it , and in my better efforts while I conducted my story through the agency of historical personages and by connecting it with historical ...
... head and shoulders . . . . Perhaps I have sinned in this way myself . . . but I have repented of it , and in my better efforts while I conducted my story through the agency of historical personages and by connecting it with historical ...
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Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
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