Celticism

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-90-5183-986-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 299 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Studia Imagologica

The volume collects papers from a multi-disciplinary workshop, held under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, which examined the idea of Celticism in its European contexts from the eighteenth century to the present. Linguists, historians, cultural theorists and literary critics from a range of European countries addressed for the first time in a sustained way how the idea of Celticism developed and how it affected many aspects of European culture. A primary focus of the volume is James Macpherson's Ossian, now under-going a re-estimation. Other topics which receive significant examination are Celticism as a force in cultural nationalism, Celticism in contemporary Christianity, primitivism, the image of the Celt in archaeology, historiography, political propaganda and the role of the idea of the Celtic in linguistic taxonomy. This pioneering work will be of interest to scholars and students in a wide range of subjects in which the nature, function and effect of cultural concepts and images are of central concern.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brown, Terence

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Terence BROWN: Preface. Joep LEERSSEN: Celticism. Daniel DROIXHE: Ossian, Hermann and the Jew's Harp: Images of Celtic Languages from 1600 to 1800. Hildegard L.C. TRISTRAM: Celtic in Linguistic Taxonomy in the Nineteenth Century. Timothy CHAMPION: The Celt in Archaeology. Fiona STAFFORD: Primitivism and the 'Primitive' Poet: A Cultural Context for Macpherson's Ossian. Patrick SIMS-WILLIAMS: The Invention of Celtic Nature Poetry. Mícheál MAC CRAITH: The 'Forging' of Ossian. Donald E. MEEK: Modern Celtic Christianity. Ann RIGNEY: Immemorial Routines: The Celts and their Resistance to History. Annie JOURDAN: The Image of Gaul during the French Revolution: Between Charlemagne and Ossian. George WATSON: Celticism and the Annulment of History. Terence BROWN: Cultural Nationalism, Celticism and the Occult. Christopher HARVIE: Anglo-Saxons into Celts: The Scottish Intellectuals 1760-1930. Howard GASKILL: Herder, Ossian and the Celtic. Luke GIBBONS: The Sympathetic Bond: Ossian, Celticism and Colonialism. Index of personal names.