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International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian /

James Macpherson's "Poems of Ossian," first published from 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, were the literary sensation of the age. Attacked by Samuel Johnson and others as "forgeries," nonetheless the poems enthralled readers around the world, attracting rapturous admir...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Moore, Dafydd, 1973- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A brief biography of James Macpherson
  • Introduction / Dafydd Moore
  • 1. The correspondence of James Macpherson / Paul deGategno
  • 2. Ossian and the Gaelic world / Lesa Ní Mhunghaile
  • 3. Ossian and the state of translation in the Scottish Enlightenment / Gauti Kristmannsson
  • 4. Nostalgic Ossian and the transcreation of the Scottish nation / Cordula Lemke
  • 5. Landscape and the sense of place in The poems of Ossian / Sebastian Mitchell
  • 6. Ossian's impact on the discovery of ancient Scandinavian literature / Robert W. Rix
  • 7. The significance of James Macpherson's Ossian for visual artists / Murdo Macdonald
  • 8. Macpherson's Iliad and the logic of literary primitivism / Dafydd Moore
  • 9. Principles, prejudices, and the politics of James Macpherson's historical writing / Robert W. Jones.