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 102
... literary inquiries about the past were inextricably affili- ated . The anthologists were interested in the transmission of the past through poetry . The literary making of history began with the MS : it had the same empirical status as ...
... literary inquiries about the past were inextricably affili- ated . The anthologists were interested in the transmission of the past through poetry . The literary making of history began with the MS : it had the same empirical status as ...
الصفحة 105
... literary archaeology . A task of national importance , each new poem rescued from oblivion was seen as the restoration of a " monu- ment " of antiquity . Thomas Percy In Joshua Reynolds ' portrait of Percy ( painted in May 1773 ) the ...
... literary archaeology . A task of national importance , each new poem rescued from oblivion was seen as the restoration of a " monu- ment " of antiquity . Thomas Percy In Joshua Reynolds ' portrait of Percy ( painted in May 1773 ) the ...
الصفحة 109
... literary excavation , whose treasures had once again been rifled by Macpherson , albeit fraudulently : • How strongly is one's curiosity piqued by the mention you make .. of the Epic Poem wrote in 570 [ the Gododin ] ... what a noble ...
... literary excavation , whose treasures had once again been rifled by Macpherson , albeit fraudulently : • How strongly is one's curiosity piqued by the mention you make .. of the Epic Poem wrote in 570 [ the Gododin ] ... what a noble ...
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Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
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