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Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age (Under the Sign of Nature)
Eric Gidal
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Description for Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age (Under the Sign of Nature)
Hardcover. 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. -- Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 206 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
In Ossianic Unconformities Eric Gidal introduces the idiosyncratic publications of a group of nineteenth-century Scottish eccentrics who sought to establish the authenticity of the epic poetry of Ossian, created by James Macpherson and presented as genuine translations of a fictionalized thirdcentury Caledonian bard. Through promotion, evasion, and confrontation, these writings indirectly came to record the massive changes being wrought upon Scottish and Irish lands by British industrialization. Combining environmental and industrial histories with the reception of the poems of Ossian, Ossianic Unconformities unites literary history and book studies with geography, cartography, and geology to present and consider imaginative responses to ... Read more
In Ossianic Unconformities Eric Gidal introduces the idiosyncratic publications of a group of nineteenth-century Scottish eccentrics who sought to establish the authenticity of the epic poetry of Ossian, created by James Macpherson and presented as genuine translations of a fictionalized thirdcentury Caledonian bard. Through promotion, evasion, and confrontation, these writings indirectly came to record the massive changes being wrought upon Scottish and Irish lands by British industrialization. Combining environmental and industrial histories with the reception of the poems of Ossian, Ossianic Unconformities unites literary history and book studies with geography, cartography, and geology to present and consider imaginative responses to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938172
SKU
V9780813938172
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About Eric Gidal
Eric Gidal, author of Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, USA.
Reviews for Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age (Under the Sign of Nature)
“Ossianic Unconformities is an original and imaginative contribution to our interdisciplinary understanding of the importance of James Macpherson in world literature."" —Dafydd Moore, Plymouth University