...Dafydd Moore Duke University Press 2006 James Macpherson and “Celtic Whiggism” Dafydd Moore University of Plymouth James Macpherson has proved as diffi cult and troublesome a fi gure within recent...

... Dialogues were revised last minute to include a response to David Hume’s History of England under the House of Tudor (1759) and explores how Hurd’s Letters on Chivalry and romance engages with the James Macpherson Ossian controversy of the 1760s. It examines the challenge that the recovery of a supposedly...

..., Empire’s first and second chapters examine moments of ethnic tension within Scotland. Chapter 1 reconfigures the controversy sur- rounding James Macpherson’s Ossian poems by examining the tensions their publication caused between Highlanders and Lowlanders rather than between Scots and the English...

... the centuries, but it was the work of James Macpherson, particularly the theoretical essays attached to his great edition of the poems of Ossian, that brought together the civi- lized and the primitive, the “high” and the “low,” and ultimately permitted cross-­fertilization and exchange between...

... her ardor. Indeed, any problems were of quality, and James Macpherson himself was to blame. Lynch quotes her, in 1792: “I impute the fustian passages, of which it must be allowed there are several, to Macpherson; and it is almost all I can allow him as to the images and ideas” (27). Thereafter...

... contribution to the early nineteenth-century 132 Eighteenth-Century Life emergence of the modern individual, a figure defined, for Swenson, “by agency instead of essence” (11). James Macpherson’s Ossian and Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland form the subject...

... The Typographical Gothic 8 1 Figure 3. James Macpherson, Fingal (London, 1762), title page. Courtesy of the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 82 Eighteenth-Century Life robes, are familiar from classical iconography. If we were forced to identify gothic elements here, we might...

...: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700  – 1830 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1999). 3. Early studies include Ian Haywood, The Making of History: A Study of the Literary Forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton in Relation to Eighteenth-­Century Ideas of History and Fiction...

... of Fingal (1762) played (as its subtitle suggests) on the similarity of sound between James Macpherson’s Fingal (1761) and the more bathetic Gisbal. Many mock- ing references to Bute and Gisbal’s “staff ” f o l l o w e d , e x p l o i t i n g t h e p o p u - lar rumor of Bute’s aff air...

... of the bard its first cultural-nationalist turn in 1724 when he reframed the courtly Middle Scots poets as “these good old Bards” in his anthology The Ever Green. Four decades later, Evan Evans did the same for the Old Welsh poets, and James Macpherson introduced the Highland bard Ossian to the world...

... of James Macpherson’s Ossian (“Fingal and the landscape (for Beckett) is emblematic of the human tragedies and sufferings that have taken place there. The protagonist of “Fingal,” Belacqua Shuah, an unhe- roic antithesis of Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus, draws attention to these fea- tures, thus...

...). James Macpherson’s Ossian and Thomas Chatterton’s Rowley poems similarly involved fabricating the putative remnants of a projected work of mythic proportions, evoking not only a lost epic, but also a recovered frame- work for a whole cultural identity: indeed, Jung argues that this deployment...

... by ruffians with rape, like the virgin in James Macpherson’s 1758 Highlander, or the equally threatened “virgin beauty” of the 1775 Civil War.7 In incorporating mov- ing atrocities into a literary representation of war, Johnstone is of his time. He writes in a manner that martial authors had only...

...), in the article about Ossian’s putative editor, James Macpherson (20:109 – 12), six paragraphs are devoted to the dispute between these two argumentative men of letters. The entry “Superstition” (18:74 – 76) briefly mentions Johnson’s supposed belief in sec- ond sight, while the article on second sight (17...

...,” and that Macpherson’s “application of ‘pos- sessive individualism’ and a market society model of capitalism to Locke’s political ideasis inadequate and even seriously misleading.” In the same year, James Tully published A Discourse of Property, which, just as compre- hensively as Dunn’s classic work, is devoted...

...- cern with the progress of society from rudeness to refinement.29 Like many in their circle, both Blacklock and Lawrie had an abiding faith in James Macpherson’s claims for the authenticity of the Ossian poems as the prose translations of a genuine ancient Scottish epic. Lawrie had actually played...

... of the characters’ estates. In the discussion of property that follows, I refer less to those objects that a person owns than to the rights a person has to those objects. C. B. Macpherson argues, Property is not things but rights. . . . To have a property is to have a right in the sense...

... illustration are fields that require further scholarly work.4 The poetry of  Thomas Gray, Edward Young, James Macpherson, and Robert Burns, among many others, was frequently interpreted visually, and it is the visual or painterly adaptation of these poems that frequently enhanced, sustained...

...: Hume, Johnson, Marat (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ., 2001). Pp. 219. $39.50. ISBN 0-8387-5481-3 Moore, Dafydd. Enlightenment and Romance in James Macpherson’s The Poems of Ossian: Myth, Genre, and Cultural Change. Studies in Early Modern English Literature (Burlington: Ashgate, 2003). Pp...

... Univ., 200 Pp. 29. $39.50. ISBN 0-8387-548-3 Moore, Dafydd. Enlightenment and Romance in James Macpherson’s The Poems of Ossian: Myth, Genre, and Cultural Change. Studies in Early Modern English Literature (Burlington: Ashgate, 2003). Pp. 98. $69.95. ISBN 0-7546-0973- Moote, A. Lloyd...