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

Levinson, EphraimUniversity of Cambridge2022

… 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 by appropriating the scenographic …

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