Ossianic unconformities : bardic poetry in the industrial age / Eric Gidal.

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

• 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. -- 

Ämnesord

Litterär förfalskning  (sao)

Place (Philosophy) in literature.  (LCSH)

Literary forgeries and mystifications  -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Literary forgeries and mystifications  (LCSH)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Ossian, active 3rd century.

Ossian, active 3rd century.

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796 -- Authorship.

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796.

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796

Namn/titel

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796: The works of Ossian 

Klassifikation

PR3544 (LCC)

821.6 (DDC)