The International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian
Scottish Literature International (Verlag)
978-1-908980-19-9 (ISBN)
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 admiration from such figures as diverse as Goethe, Diderot, Jefferson, Bonaparte and Mendelssohn. This International Companion examines the social, political and philosophical context of the poems, their disputed origins, their impact on world literature, and the various critical afterlives of Macpherson and of "Ossian".
Dafydd Moore is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Plymouth.
Series Editors’ Preface Biographical Note on James Macpherson Introduction 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) Endnotes Further Reading Notes on Contributors
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.11.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | International Companions to Scottish Literature |
Verlagsort | Glasgow |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 312 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-908980-19-2 / 1908980192 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-908980-19-9 / 9781908980199 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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