James MacPherson : romancing the Gael : the literary, cultural and historiographical context of "The Poems of Ossian"

This thesis locates James Macpherson's The Poems of Ossian (1760-1763) within a range of contexts in order to come to a more fully integrated conception of text in context than has frequently been the case previously. It argues that Macpherson scholarship has been dogged by issues of authentici...

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Main Author: Moore, Dafydd R.
Published: University of Strathclyde 1998
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366740