This collection contained writing in many genres, including dialogues, pastorals, allegories, and imitations of Henry Macpherson
's fashionable Ossian. One of the essays paints a rosy picture of the necessity of working for bread...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Grant
The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young
, the Bible, Macpherson
's Ossian and Homer
's Odyssey, Sterne
and Smollett
Intertextuality and Influence
Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft
, and its epigraphs to...
