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 FictionThe 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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... created a unique form of historical fiction whose lifeblood was the contemporary debate over the value of fiction as history . Social and Cultural History In his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , first delivered in the 1760s ...
... created a unique form of historical fiction whose lifeblood was the contemporary debate over the value of fiction as history . Social and Cultural History In his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , first delivered in the 1760s ...
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... created a vacuum to stress the eschatological scheme of things : Ossian perched on an abyss . Chronologically ... creation , " Colna- Dona " was Ossian's final utterance . ( The only point to note about the other shorter poems ...
... created a vacuum to stress the eschatological scheme of things : Ossian perched on an abyss . Chronologically ... creation , " Colna- Dona " was Ossian's final utterance . ( The only point to note about the other shorter poems ...
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... created a telling juxtaposition : the Roses War and the founding and building of St. Mary Redcliff . Both these events , it must be stressed , were real . They really happened . Chatterton created his own version of how they took place ...
... created a telling juxtaposition : the Roses War and the founding and building of St. Mary Redcliff . Both these events , it must be stressed , were real . They really happened . Chatterton created his own version of how they took place ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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