The reception of Ossian in Europe
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The reception of Ossian in Europe
（The Athlone critical traditions series, . The reception of British authors in Europe ; v. 5）
Continuum, 2008
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"Paperback edition 2008"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-439) and index
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This is a collection of international research surveying the reception of James Macpherson's Ossian poems in European literature and culture.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 1760s. 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 in a wide range of European countries, in both literary and non-literary forms of reception and in the work of both individual writers and national literary cultures.Our knowledge of British and Irish authors is incomplete and inadequate without an understanding of the perspectives of other nations on them. Each volume examines the ways authors have been translated, published, distributed, read, reviewed and discussed in Europe.
In doing so, it throws light not only on the specific strands of intellectual and cultural history but also on the processes involved in the dissemination of ideas and texts.
Table of Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations: Primary Ossianic Texts
- Timeline of Ossian's European Reception
- Introduction: 'Genuine poetry...like gold', Howard Gaskill (University of Edinburgh)
- 1. The Reception of The Poems of Ossian in England and Scotland, Dafydd Moore (University of Plymouth)
- 2. The Sublime Gael: The Impact of Macpherson's Ossian on Literary Creativity and Cultural Perception in Gaelic Scotland, Donald Meek (University of Edinburgh)
- 3. Ossian in Wales and Brittany, Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales)
- 4. 'We know all these poems': the Irish Response to Ossian, Micheal Mac Craith (University of Galway)
- 5. Ossian and the Rise of Literary Historicism, Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam)
- 6. Chateaubriand's Ossian, Colin Smethurst (University of Glasgow)
- 7. The Reception and Reworking of Ossian in Klopstock's Hermanns Schlacht, Sandro Jung (University of Wales, Lampeter)
- 8. Goethe's Translation from the Gaelic Ossian, Caitriona O Dochartaigh (University College Cork)
- 9. 'Menschlichschon' and 'kolossalisch': The Discursive Function of Ossian in Schiller's Poetry and Aesthetics, Wolf Gerhard Schmidt (University of Saarbrucken). 10. Ossian in Sweden and Swedish-speaking Finland, Peter Graves (University of Edinburgh)
- 11. Literary, Artistic and Political Resonances of Ossian in the Czech National Revival, James Porter (UCLA)
- 12. Ossian in Hungary, Gabriella Hartvig (University of Pecs)
- 13. Ossian in Poland, Nina Taylor-Terlecka (University of Oxford)
- 14. Fingal in Russia, Peter France (University of Edinburgh)
- 15. Ossian in Italy: From Cesarotti to the Theatre, Enrico Mattioda (University of Turin)
- 16. From Smith's Antiquities to Leoni's Nuovi Canti: The Making of the Ossianic Tradition Revisited, Francesca Broggi-Wuthrich (University of Zurich)
- 17. The Suggestiveness of Ossian in Romantic Spain: The Case of Espronceda and Garcia Gutierrez, Andrew Ginger (University of Edinburgh)
- 18. Ossian in Portugal, Gerald Bar (Aberta University)
- 19. Ossian in Musci, Christopher Smith (University of East Anglia)
- 20. Ossian and Art: Scotland into Europe via Rome, Murdo
- MacDonald (University of Dundee)
- Bibliography
- Index.
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