The International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian.

Cover -- Other Works in the Series -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Series -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Correspondence of James Macpherson -- 2. Ossian and the Gaelic World -- 3. Ossian and the State of Translation in the Scottish Enlightenment -- 4. Nostalgic Ossian and the Transcreation of the Scottish Nation -- 5. Landscape and the Sense of Place in The Poems of Ossian -- 6. Ossian's Impact on the Discovery of Ancient Scandianvian Literature -- 7. The Significance of James Macpherson's Ossian for Visual Arts -- 8. Macpherson's Iliad and the Logic of Literary Primitivism -- 9. Principles, Prejudices, and the Politics of James Macpherson's Historical Writing -- Endnotes -- Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.

This International Companion examines the social, political and philosophical context of Macpherson's "poems of Ossian", their disputed origins, their impact on world literature, and the various critical afterlives of Macpherson and his creations.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.