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 páginas 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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... stories , ancient or modern , we shall find that they are such as , as however adorned and a little diversified , are yet ... story , that it supersedes invention , and imagination ranges at full liberty without straggling into scenes of ...
... stories , ancient or modern , we shall find that they are such as , as however adorned and a little diversified , are yet ... story , that it supersedes invention , and imagination ranges at full liberty without straggling into scenes of ...
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... story was an important national tradition . But it was Pope's critic Joseph Warton who best displayed the pressure for the fictional making of the national past . In the Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope ( 1756 ) , written only a ...
... story was an important national tradition . But it was Pope's critic Joseph Warton who best displayed the pressure for the fictional making of the national past . In the Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope ( 1756 ) , written only a ...
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... story is true " bravado dismissed by Antony Burgess . The " editor " of Moll Flanders admitted that he had altered both the language and content of Moll's memoirs . What we read is not Moll's account , but a counterfeit , the editor's ...
... story is true " bravado dismissed by Antony Burgess . The " editor " of Moll Flanders admitted that he had altered both the language and content of Moll's memoirs . What we read is not Moll's account , but a counterfeit , the editor's ...
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Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Direitos de autor | |
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Aella ancient poetry anthologists anthology antiquarian Antiquary antiquity authentic ballad bard bardic Battle of Hastynges Bristol Britain Brystowe Tragedie Canynge Canynge's chapter Chatterton's vision culture Defoe dramatic Druids edition editor eighteenth century English epic Essay Evans fact Fingal Fingalian footnote forgeries Fragment Gallic genuine hero Highland historian historical fiction historiography history writing Homer Hugh Blair Hume Ibid imaginative Innes invention Ireland Irish James Macpherson John Johnson Joseph Ritson Joseph Warton King later letters literary literature Llywarch Hen Locke's London Macpher Macpherson and Chatterton minstrel modern narrative novel Oldbuck oral original Ossian past Percy Percy's piece play poem poet poetical preface present quoted records Redcliff reference regression Reliques Ritson Rowley's Saxon Scotland Scottish social history song sources story Temora Thomas Chatterton Thomas Percy Thomas Rowley tion translation transmission truth Turner verse voice vols Vortigern Warton Waverley Waverley novels William
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The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing Janet Sorensen Pré-visualização limitada - 2000 |