Ossianic unconformities : bardic poetry in the industrial age /

Ossianic unconformities : bardic poetry in the industrial age /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gidal, Eric, author.
Imprint:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Description:	xi, 226 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism Under the sign of nature.
Subject:	Macpherson, James, -- 1736-1796 -- Authorship. Ossian, -- active 3rd century. Macpherson, James, -- 1736-1796. Ossian, -- active 3rd century. Literary forgeries and mystifications -- History -- 18th century. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Authorship. Literary forgeries and mystifications. Place (Philosophy) in literature. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10357850

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ISBN:	9780813938172 0813938171 9780813938189
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Combining environmental and industrial histories with the reception history of the poems of Ossian, this book examines a uniquely modern quest to locate vestiges of ancient poetry in the rapidly changing landscapes of an industrial world. --

Table of Contents:

Note on the texts
Introduction: Ossianic unconformities
The songs of ancient peoples
Statistical analyses
Topographical labours
The testimony of the rocks
Extraordinary voyages.