- Description
- xi, 226 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Combining environmental and industrial histories with the reception history of the poems of Ossian, this book examines a uniquely modern quest to locate vestiges of ancient poetry in the rapidly changing landscapes of an industrial world. --
- Series Statement
- Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
- Uniform Title
- Under the sign of nature.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Note on the texts -- Introduction: Ossianic unconformities -- The songs of ancient peoples -- Statistical analyses -- Topographical labours -- The testimony of the rocks -- Extraordinary voyages.
- ISBN
- 9780813938172
- 0813938171
- 9780813938189 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015005229
- OCLC
- YBP 2015005229
- Author
Gidal, Eric, author.
- Title
Ossianic unconformities : bardic poetry in the industrial age / Eric Gidal.
- Publisher
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Under the sign of nature.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
1700 - 1799