Filtern nach
Letzte Suchanfragen

Ergebnisse für *

Zeige Ergebnisse 1 bis 1 von 1.

  1. Samuel Johnson, the Ossian fraud, and the Celtic revival in Great Britain and Ireland
    Erschienen: 2009
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

    An introductory survey of scholarship on Ossian : why literary truth matters -- James Macpherson's violation of literary truth -- Johnson on truth, frauds, and folklore : in the company of Thomas Percy -- Searching for truth in the Highlands :... mehr

    Zugang:
    Aggregator (lizenzpflichtig)
    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
    E-Book EBSCO
    keine Fernleihe
    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
    E-Book Ebsco
    keine Fernleihe
    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
    keine Fernleihe
    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
    keine Fernleihe

     

    An introductory survey of scholarship on Ossian : why literary truth matters -- James Macpherson's violation of literary truth -- Johnson on truth, frauds, and folklore : in the company of Thomas Percy -- Searching for truth in the Highlands : Macpherson throws down the gauntlet -- Charles O'Conor and the Celtic Revival in Ireland -- Johnson and the Irish : more opposition to Ossian -- Johnson's last word on Ossian with William Shaw : a finale to controversy. James Macpherson's famous hoax, publishing his own poems as the writings of the ancient Scots bard Ossian in the 1760s, remains fascinating to scholars as the most successful literary fraud in history. This study presents the fullest investigation of his deception to date, by looking at the controversy from the point of view of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's dispute with Macpherson was an argument with wide implications not only for literature, but for the emerging national identities of the British nations during the Celtic revival. Thomas M. Curley offers a wealth of genuinely new information, detailing as never before Johnson's involvement in the Ossian controversy, his insistence on truth-telling, and his interaction with others in the debate. The appendix reproduces a rare pamphlet against Ossian written with the assistance of Johnson himself. This book will be an important addition to knowledge about both the Ossian controversy and Samuel Johnson

     

    Export in Literaturverwaltung   RIS-Format
      BibTeX-Format