The harp and the constitution : : myths of Celtic and Gothic origin / / edited by Joanne Parker.

"Celtic and Gothic : both words refer today to both ancient tribes and modern styles. 'Celtic' is associated with harp music, native knitwear, and spirituality; 'Gothic' with medieval cathedrals, rock bands, and horror fiction. The eleven essays collected together here chart...

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Superior document:National cultivation of culture, volume 11
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:National cultivation of culture ; v. 11.
Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Myths of Celtic and Gothic origin : an introduction / Joanne Parker
  • Part 1. The Gothic
  • Tribal ancestors and moral role patterns / Joep Leerssen
  • Eighteenth-century Gothic before the Castle of Otranto / Nick Groom
  • Johnson and the Teutonic roots of English / Robert DeMaria
  • Wordsworth's Gothic education / Tom Duggett
  • A tale of two kings : the "Celtic" Arthur and the "Gothic" Alfred / Joanne parker
  • Part 2. The Celtic
  • The rediscovery of the British Druids / Ronald Hutton
  • Ossianism and the Arthurian revival : the case of Richard Hole's Arthur; or The Northern enchantment (1789) / Dafydd Moore
  • Strange meetings : the romantic poets and the stone circles of the Lake District / Tim Fulford
  • Reigning with swords of meteoric iron : Archangel Michael and the British New Jerusalem / Amy Hale
  • From Pondal (1835-1917) to Cabanillas (1876-1956) : Ossian and Arthur in the making of a Celtic Galicia / Juan Miguel Zarandona
  • The role of Alesia, Bibracte and Gergovia in the mythology of the French state / John Collis.