Series Editors’ Preface Biographical Note on James Macpherson Introduction 1. The Correspondence of James Macpherson (Paul deGategno) 2. Ossian and the Gaelic World (Lesa Ní Mhunghaile) 3. Ossian and the State of Translation in the Scottish Enlightenment( Gauti Kristmannsson) 4. Nostalgic Ossian and the Transcreation of the Scottish Nation (Cordula Lemke) 5. Landscape and the Sense of Place in the Poems of Ossian (Sebastian Mitchell) 6. Ossian’s Impact on the Discovery of Ancient Scandinavian Literature (Robert W Rix) 7. The Significance of James Macpherson’s Ossian for Visual Artists (Murdo Macdonald) 8. Macpherson’s Iliad and the Logic of Literary Primitivism (Dafydd Moore) 9. Principles, Prejudices and the Politics of James Macpherson’s Historical Writing (Robert W. Jones) Endnotes Further Reading Notes on Contributors
Dafydd Moore is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Plymouth.
Moore's volume has an appropriate sense of itself as a canon-making
device, covering many of the key aspects of Macpherson's work,
summarizing the extant critical debate while introducing new
developments. It will make a valuable teaching aid, while there is
also plenty here to exercise experts in the field.
*The BARS Review*
Ossian has been in need of a companion for as long as he has been
telling the tales of other times. Thanks to Dafydd Moore, he
now has a very congenial one: slim, engaging and wonderfully
sympathetic.
*Scottish Literary Review 9/2*
This collection of essays sheds important new light on a
uniquely experimental body of poetry that continues to bind
together a complex of dislocations, re-mediations,
transcreations, and, yes, translations: in the vagaries of
language and on the surfaces of the page, the canvas, and the
landscape.
*Translation and Literature 26/3*
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