The Making of History: A Study of the Literary Forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton in Relation to Eighte

by Ian Haywood

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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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Ian Haywood is Reader in English at Roehampton University, London, UK.

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Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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821.6Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish Poetry1745-1799
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PR575 .H5 .H39Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteraturePoetryBy period

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