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Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age

Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age

Gidal, Eric

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Series: Under the Sign of Nature

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

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ISBN10: 0813938171
ISBN13: 9780813938172
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Aug 25 2015
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

In a sequence of publications in the 1760s, James Macpherson, a Scottish schoolteacher in the central Highlands, created fantastic epics of ancient heroes and presented them as genuine translations of the poetry of Ossian, a fictionalized Caledonian bard of the third century. In Ossianic Unconformities Eric Gidal introduces the idiosyncratic publications of a group of nineteenth-century Scottish eccentrics who used statistics, cartography, and geomorphology to map and thereby vindicate Macpherson's controversial eighteenth-century renderings of Gaelic oral traditions. Although these writers primarily sought to establish the authenticity of Macpherson's translations, they came to record, through promotion, evasion, and confrontation, the massive changes being wrought upon Scottish and Irish lands by British industrialization. Their obsessive and elaborate attempts to fix both the poetry and the land into a stable set of coordinates developed what we can now perceive as a nascent ecological perspective on literature in a changing world.

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