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Contents 6 Series Editor's Preface 8 Acknowledgements 13 List of Contributors 14 Abbreviations: Primary Ossianic Texts 19 Timeline of Ossian's European Reception 22 Introduction: 'Genuine poetry . . . like gold' 70 1 The Reception of The Poems of Ossian in England and Scotland 90 2 The Sublime Gael: The Impact of Macpherson's Ossian on Literary Creativity and Cultural Perception in Gaelic Scotland 109 3 Ossian in Wales and Brittany 136 4 'We know all these poems': The Irish Response to Ossian 160 5 Ossian and the Rise of Literary Historicism 178 6 Chateaubriand's Ossian 195 7 The Reception and Reworking of Ossian in Klopstock's Hermanns Schlacht 212 8 Goethe's Translation from the Gaelic Ossian 225 9 'Menschlichschön' and 'kolossalisch': The Discursive Function of Ossian in Schiller's Poetry and Aesthetics 245 10 Ossian in Sweden and Swedish-speaking Finland 267 11 Literary, Artistic and Political Resonances of Ossian in the Czech National Revival 278 12 Ossian in Hungary 291 13 Ossian in Poland 309 14 Fingal in Russia 328 15 Ossian in Italy: From Cesarotti to the Theatre 343 16 From Smith's Antiquities to Leoni's Nuovi Canti: The Making of the Italian Ossianic Tradition Revisited

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Author
Gaskill, Howard; Gaskill, Professor Howard; Barnaby, Paul
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction

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