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 92
... showed Fingal defeating a Roman general , Severus . The salient development to note is the long first footnote prefixed to the piece . This footnote authenticated the history in the narrative by presenting the " background . " No ...
... showed Fingal defeating a Roman general , Severus . The salient development to note is the long first footnote prefixed to the piece . This footnote authenticated the history in the narrative by presenting the " background . " No ...
الصفحة 109
... showed how great was the pressure for a poem of national history : the epic . Macpherson saw that the value of the " orig- inal " or ancient , primary epic was superior to the modern imitation . An editor could uncover a national Homer ...
... showed how great was the pressure for a poem of national history : the epic . Macpherson saw that the value of the " orig- inal " or ancient , primary epic was superior to the modern imitation . An editor could uncover a national Homer ...
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... showed how Canynge used his wealth . The two letters of 1431 showed Canynge's consistent generosity to his tenants . The two freemason letters of 1432 composed an exercise in social history almost comparable to the account of Christmas ...
... showed how Canynge used his wealth . The two letters of 1431 showed Canynge's consistent generosity to his tenants . The two freemason letters of 1432 composed an exercise in social history almost comparable to the account of Christmas ...
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Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
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