Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland

ISBN: 9781107425538 出版年：2009 页码：350 Thomas M Curley Cambridge University Press

1. An introductory survey of scholarship on Ossian: why literary truth matters 2. James Macpherson's violation of literary truth 3. Johnson on truth, frauds, and folklore: in the company of Thomas Percy 4. Searching for truth in the Highlands: Macpherson throws down the gauntlet 5. Charles O'Conor and the Celtic Revival in Ireland 6. Johnson and the Irish: more opposition to Ossian 7. Johnson's last word on Ossian with William Shaw: a finale to controversy Appendix: A Reply to Mr Clark (1782) by William Shaw in Association with Samuel Johnson Bibliography Index.