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Hugh Blair : A Study of His Rhetorical Theory

Corbett, Edward P.J.2016

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Knowing and Understanding the Past in Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Historiographical Thought

Levinson, EphraimUniversity of Cambridge2022

… the claims made in the 1760s by Robert Wood and Hugh Blair for the epic poems of Homer and Ossian to be read as veracious historical narratives. It then suggests that a dramatic adaptation of Ossian – John Home’s 'The Fatal Discovery' (1769) – makes a case for theatre as a mode of historiography …

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Rhetoric and literary criticism in the early Scottish Enlightenment

McLean, Ralph R.University of Glasgow2009

… by historians and literary critics. Men such as Hugh Blair, Adam Smith and George Campbell have now been afforded a just place in the canon of literary critics. However, the period before the 1760s which saw a great flourishing in Scottish intellectual activity has, by in large, remained …

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