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Title The harp and the constitution : myths of Celtic and Gothic origin / edited by Joanne Parker
Published Leiden : Brill, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series National Cultivation of Culture
National cultivation of culture.
Contents Myths of Celtic and Gothic origin : an introduction / Joanne Parker -- Part 1. The Gothic -- Tribal ancestors and moral role patterns / Joep Leerssen -- Eighteenth-century Gothic before the Castle of Otranto / Nick Groom -- Johnson and the Teutonic roots of English / Robert DeMaria -- Wordsworth's Gothic education / Tom Duggett -- A tale of two kings : the "Celtic" Arthur and the "Gothic" Alfred / Joanne parker -- Part 2. The Celtic -- The rediscovery of the British Druids / Ronald Hutton -- Ossianism and the Arthurian revival : the case of Richard Hole's Arthur; or The Northern enchantment (1789) / Dafydd Moore -- Strange meetings : the romantic poets and the stone circles of the Lake District / Tim Fulford -- Reigning with swords of meteoric iron : Archangel Michael and the British New Jerusalem / Amy Hale -- From Pondal (1835-1917) to Cabanillas (1876-1956) : Ossian and Arthur in the making of a Celtic Galicia / Juan Miguel Zarandona -- The role of Alesia, Bibracte and Gergovia in the mythology of the French state / John Collis
Summary "Celtic and Gothic : both words refer today to both ancient tribes and modern styles. 'Celtic' is associated with harp music, native knitwear, and spirituality; 'Gothic' with medieval cathedrals, rock bands, and horror fiction. The eleven essays collected together here chart some of the curious and unexpected ways in which the Celts and the Goths were appropriated and reinvented in Britain and other European countries through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries--becoming not just mythologised races, but lending their names to abstract principles and entire value systems. Contributed by experts in literature, archaeology, history, and Celtic studies, the essays range from broad surveys to specific case-studies, and together demonstrate the complicated interplay that has always existed between 'Celticism' and 'Gothicism'. Contributors are: John Collis, Robert DeMaria, Tom Duggett, Tim Fulford, Nick Groom, Amy Hale, Ronald Hutton, Joep Leerssen, Dafydd Moore, Joanne Parker, Juan Zarandona"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Civilization, Celtic.
Celts -- History
Civilization, Germanic.
Goths -- History
Mythology, British.
Mythology, European.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Celts
Civilization
Civilization, Celtic
Civilization, Germanic
Goths
Mythology, British
Mythology, European
Englisch
Goten
Kelten
Literatur
Mythologie
Rezeption
Religion celtique.
Signes et symboles -- Pays celtiques.
Goths -- Religion.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056619
Europe -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045637
Subject Europe
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
History
Form Electronic book
Author Parker, Joanne, 1974- editor.
ISBN 9789004306387
9004306382