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 66
... History written by the Earl of Clarendon . " 63 Nor was the stance a mere counterfeiting of histo- rians ' rhetoric . I believe that historical fiction , the imaginative writer's power of recreation , was being pitted against orthodox ...
... History written by the Earl of Clarendon . " 63 Nor was the stance a mere counterfeiting of histo- rians ' rhetoric . I believe that historical fiction , the imaginative writer's power of recreation , was being pitted against orthodox ...
الصفحة 158
... fiction . Authen- tic history was an armature on which fiction was molded or attached . Chatterton , we remember , made great use of real buildings , including bridges , in his vision . Home's defense of his characterization of Alfred ...
... fiction . Authen- tic history was an armature on which fiction was molded or attached . Chatterton , we remember , made great use of real buildings , including bridges , in his vision . Home's defense of his characterization of Alfred ...
الصفحة 170
... History and Fiction Ian Haywood. large over the text . Oldbuck represented the factual aspect of historical fiction . His flaw was that he could not appreciate the role of fiction in the making of the past . This was shown beautifully ...
... History and Fiction Ian Haywood. large over the text . Oldbuck represented the factual aspect of historical fiction . His flaw was that he could not appreciate the role of fiction in the making of the past . This was shown beautifully ...
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Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
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