The international companion to James Macpherson and The poems of Ossian / edited by Dafydd Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Dafydd, 1973- editor.

Series:

International companions to Scottish literature.

International companions to Scottish literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Macpherson, James.

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796. Ossian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 187 pages).)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Glasgow : Scottish Literature International, 2017.

Summary:

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 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 his literary works.

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 N{acute}i 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.

Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-908980-20-6

OCLC:

973536185