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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... sources from discovery to publication . He presented the historian as a skilled discoverer and editor of his sources : the exact equivalent of the literary stance Macpherson took publicly to Ossian : It is needless to explain minutely ...
... sources from discovery to publication . He presented the historian as a skilled discoverer and editor of his sources : the exact equivalent of the literary stance Macpherson took publicly to Ossian : It is needless to explain minutely ...
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... sources being cited from those times were purified . The ancient Scotland Innes pictured was not depraved , but neither was it over - refined . He presented the bard as the poet of oral culture only . Literacy , and therefore the first ...
... sources being cited from those times were purified . The ancient Scotland Innes pictured was not depraved , but neither was it over - refined . He presented the bard as the poet of oral culture only . Literacy , and therefore the first ...
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... sources from which it had been taken . Where the narrative departed from the sources was precisely where the fiction was supposedly validated — as being , paradoxically , " factual " revision : new light on the past . Any imaginative ...
... sources from which it had been taken . Where the narrative departed from the sources was precisely where the fiction was supposedly validated — as being , paradoxically , " factual " revision : new light on the past . Any imaginative ...
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Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
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