From Gaelic to Romantic : : Ossianic translations / / edited by Fiona Stafford, Howard Gaskill.

• Superior document: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Series ; v.15
• TeilnehmendeR: Stafford, Fiona,; Gaskill, Howard,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages)

The appearance of James Macpherson's Ossian in the 1760s caused an international sensation. The discovery of poetic fragments that seemed to have survived in the Highlands of Scotland for some 1500 years gripped the imagination of the reading public, who seized eagerly on the newly available te...

Table of Contents

• Ossianic liminality : between native tradition and preromantic taste / Joep Leerssen
• James Macpherson : the Gaelic dimension / Derick S. Thomson
• Ancient poetry and british pastoral / David Hall Radcliffe
• James Macpherson and Jacobite code / Murray G.H. Pittock
• "On the death of Marshall Keith" and the clan consciousness of James Macpherson / Alan G. Macpherson
• Fingal : text, context subtext / Michea´l Mac Crath
• Temora and legendary history / John Macqueen
• Narratives of loss : the poems of Ossian and Tristram Shandy
• Goethe, Ossian and Werther / F.J. Lamport
• "Blast, rief Cuchullin ... ! : J.M.R. Lenz and Ossian / Howard Gaskill
• Terrible women and tender men : a study of gender in Macpherson's Ossian / Lisa Kozlowski
• Henry Mackenzie and Ossian : or, the emotional value of asterisks / Susan Manning
• Ossian, ou Les Bardes : an opera by Jean-Franc¸ois Le Sueur
• Fingal and the fallen angels : Macpherson, Milton and romantic Titanism / Fiona Stafford
• James Macpherson and William Faulkner : a sensibility of defeat / Dafydd Moore
• Yeats, Macpherson and the cult of defeat / G.J. Watson
• From Ossian to O'Carolan : the Bard as separatist symbol / Luke Gibbons.