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 էջ 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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... seen as one orientation of the general fabrication of fiction . It is easy to see why N. M. Penzer's Library of Impostors ( 1926 ) folded after only two volumes . Penzer tried to limit himself to eigh- teenth - century fake travel ...
... seen as one orientation of the general fabrication of fiction . It is easy to see why N. M. Penzer's Library of Impostors ( 1926 ) folded after only two volumes . Penzer tried to limit himself to eigh- teenth - century fake travel ...
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... seen by looking at the titles of the earliest editions . They were helped , it must be added , by the general consensus that Chatterton was the creator of the supposed ancient works , ie . that they were forgeries . Thomas Tyrwhitt's ...
... seen by looking at the titles of the earliest editions . They were helped , it must be added , by the general consensus that Chatterton was the creator of the supposed ancient works , ie . that they were forgeries . Thomas Tyrwhitt's ...
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... seen to be of vital importance in the making of the past . As was shown in the last chapter , the writer of historical fiction needed theoretically to be a skillful selector of such information . Chatterton had been . Ireland only ...
... seen to be of vital importance in the making of the past . As was shown in the last chapter , the writer of historical fiction needed theoretically to be a skillful selector of such information . Chatterton had been . Ireland only ...
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Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
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