Title Enlightenment and romance in James Macpherson's The poems of Ossian : myth, genre and cultural change / Dafydd Moore

Published London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies in early modern English literature Studies in early modern English literature. Contents 1. The Ossianic epic and the eighteenth-century romance -- 2. Ossian, romance and source -- 3. Ossian, sentimentalism and the modalities of romance -- 4. Ossian and the romance of muscular sensibility -- 5. Sympathy, community and the sentimental sublime -- 6. Ossian and the romance of defeat Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 9, 2017) Subject Ossian, active 3rd century -- In literature. Macpherson, James, 1736-1796. Ossian. Ossian, active 3rd century. Ossian (Macpherson, James) Enlightenment -- Scotland. Literary forgeries and mystifications -- History -- 18th century. Literary form -- History -- 18th century. Mythology, Celtic, in literature. Romanticism -- Scotland Sentimentalism in literature. Social change in literature. Sublime, The, in literature. Enlightenment. Literary forgeries and mystifications. Literary form. Literature. Mythology, Celtic, in literature. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Romanticism. Sentimentalism in literature. Social change in literature. Sublime, The, in literature. Scotland. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 1351939955 9781351939959

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