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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Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
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Otras 6 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
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