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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... writing , which proliferated in an unprece- dented manner in that century . The precise way in which the forgeries ... writing . " 2 The success of Gib- bon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was summed up by himself : " My book was ...
... writing , which proliferated in an unprece- dented manner in that century . The precise way in which the forgeries ... writing . " 2 The success of Gib- bon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was summed up by himself : " My book was ...
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... writing were precarious when scrutinized . James Moor's An Essay on Historical Composition ( 1759 ) sought to prove that history writing could follow the rules of the epic . But Moor was forced to add the Aristotelian dictum that the ...
... writing were precarious when scrutinized . James Moor's An Essay on Historical Composition ( 1759 ) sought to prove that history writing could follow the rules of the epic . But Moor was forced to add the Aristotelian dictum that the ...
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... writer's power of recreation , was being pitted against orthodox history writing , especially as represented by the official received version of history . Historical fiction could , because of its ability to weave in and out of the ...
... writer's power of recreation , was being pitted against orthodox history writing , especially as represented by the official received version of history . Historical fiction could , because of its ability to weave in and out of the ...
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Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
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