The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth

by David L. Cooper

The Czech Manuscripts is dedicated to one of the most important literary forgeries on the model of Macpherson's Ossianic poetry. The Queen's Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts, discovered in 1817 and 1818, went on to play an outsized role in the Czech National Revival, functioning as founding texts of the national mythology and serving as sacred works in the long period when they were considered genuine.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501771930
• ISBN13: 9781501771934
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"