Download or read book A Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian written by Sir John Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Adam Ferguson From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh written by John SMALL (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of Imposture written by Richard Alfred Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical sketch of Adam Ferguson written by John Small and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches Of Imposture Deception And Credulity written by R. A. Davenport and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Ossianic Unconformities written by Eric Gidal and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sequence of publications in the 1760s, James Macpherson, a Scottish schoolteacher in the central Highlands, created fantastic epics of ancient heroes and presented them as genuine translations of the poetry of Ossian, a fictionalized Caledonian bard of the third century. In Ossianic Unconformities Eric Gidal introduces the idiosyncratic publications of a group of nineteenth-century Scottish eccentrics who used statistics, cartography, and geomorphology to map and thereby vindicate Macpherson's controversial eighteenth-century renderings of Gaelic oral traditions. Although these writers primarily sought to establish the authenticity of Macpherson's "translations," they came to record, through promotion, evasion, and confrontation, the massive changes being wrought upon Scottish and Irish lands by British industrialization. Their obsessive and elaborate attempts to fix both the poetry and the land into a stable set of coordinates developed what we can now perceive as a nascent ecological perspective on literature in a changing world. Gidal examines the details of these imaginary geographies in conjunction with the social and spatial histories of Belfast and the River Lagan valley, Glasgow and the Firth of Clyde, and the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, regions that form both the sixth-century kingdom of Dál Riata and the fabled terrain of the Ossianic poems. 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 environmental catastrophe.
Download or read book Sketches and Essays written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel Johnson the Ossian Fraud and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland written by Thomas M. Curley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic written by James Macpherson and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some remarks on bishop Lightfoot s dissertation on The Christian ministry Also Prospects of reconciliation between presbytery and episcopacy written by Charles Wordsworth (bp. of St. Andrews.) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sketch of the History of Fife and Kinross written by Aeneas James George Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Books English and Foreign written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H M Signet in Scotland written by Thomas-Graves Law and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Nigel Leask and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
Download or read book A Catalogue of a Unique Collection of Upwards of Twenty six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets Collected and Arranged by J R Smith written by John Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Defects of modern Christianity and other sermons written by Alfred Williams Momerie and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
