The harp and the constitution : myths of Celtic and Gothic origin / edited by Joanne Parker

Date : 2016

Editeur / Publisher : Leiden : Brill , cop. 2016

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-90-04-30637-0

EAN : 9789004306370

Religion celtique

Signes et symboles -- Pays celtiques

Goths -- Religion

Parker, Joanne (1974-....) (Editeur scientifique / editor)

Collection : National Cultivation of Culture / edited by Joep Leerssen,... ; editorial board John Breuilly,... Katharine Ellis,... Ina Ferris,... [et al.] / Leiden : Brill , 2010-

Résumé / Abstract : La 4e de couverture indique : "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."