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MacPherson the Historian: History Writing, Empire and Enlightenment in the Works of James MacPherson

MacPherson the Historian: History Writing, Empire and Enlightenment in the Works of James MacPherson

MacPherson, Mairi
MacPherson, Jim

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Literary CriticismGeneral European HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1399541110
ISBN13: 9781399541114
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 30 2024
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This is the first book-length study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) that considers him as an historian. From his early poetry, to the Ossianic Collections, his prose histories, and his later political writing, Macpherson's subject was the past and he engaged with the latest Enlightenment theories about how to write history.

Macpherson the Historian examines James' published works, from the neoclassical verse of The Highlander (1758) to his pamphlets defending the British imperial state during the late 1770s. In all of these texts, Macpherson wrote as an Enlightenment historian, where ideas about narrative, philosophy, and erudition were interwoven with eighteenth-century debates about the Highlands, commercial modernity, and the British Empire.

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