The reception of Ossian in Europe / edited by Howard Gaskill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaskill, Howard.

Series:

Athlone critical traditions series ; v. 5.

The Athlone critical traditions series ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary forgeries and mystifications--History--18th century.

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

European literature--Scottish influences.

European literature.

Mythology, Celtic, in literature.

Celts in literature.

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796. Ossian.

Macpherson, James.

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796--Influence.

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796--Appreciation--Europe.

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796--Translations--History and criticism.

Ossian, active 3rd century--In literature.

Ossian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Thoemmes Continuum, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes. This collection of 20 essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, records the ways in which Macpherson's Ossian has been received, translated and published in different areas of Europe. The Ossian poems caused a sensation on their first appearance in the 1760's. Indeed, there is hardly a major Romantic poet on whom they failed to make a significant impression. The essays brought together in this volume explore the reception of Ossian

Contents:

Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Abbreviations: Primary Ossianic Texts; Timeline of Ossian's European Reception; Introduction: 'Genuine poetry . . . like gold'; 1 The Reception of The Poems of Ossian in England and Scotland; 2 The Sublime Gael: The Impact of Macpherson's Ossian on Literary Creativity and Cultural Perception in Gaelic Scotland; 3 Ossian in Wales and Brittany; 4 'We know all these poems': The Irish Response to Ossian; 5 Ossian and the Rise of Literary Historicism; 6 Chateaubriand's Ossian

7 The Reception and Reworking of Ossian in Klopstock's Hermanns Schlacht8 Goethe's Translation from the Gaelic Ossian; 9 'Menschlichschön' and 'kolossalisch': The Discursive Function of Ossian in Schiller's Poetry and Aesthetics; 10 Ossian in Sweden and Swedish-speaking Finland; 11 Literary, Artistic and Political Resonances of Ossian in the Czech National Revival; 12 Ossian in Hungary; 13 Ossian in Poland; 14 Fingal in Russia; 15 Ossian in Italy: From Cesarotti to the Theatre; 16 From Smith's Antiquities to Leoni's Nuovi Canti: The Making of the Italian Ossianic Tradition Revisited

17 The Suggestiveness of Ossian in Romantic Spain: The Case of Espronceda and García Gutiérrez18 Ossian in Portugal; 19 Ossian in Music; 20 Ossian and Art: Scotland into Europe via Rome; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-439) and index.

ISBN:

9786611298739

9781281298737

1281298735

9781847143013

1847143016

OCLC:

229447780