The voice of the people : writing the European folk revival, 1760-1914 / edited by Matthew Campbell and Michael Perraudin.

Presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the pan-European folk revival from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The impact of Ossian : Johann Gottfried Herder's literary legacy / Renata Schellenberg -- On Robert Burns : enlightenment, mythology and the folkloric / Hamish Mathison -- The classical form of the nation : the convergence of Greek and folk forms in Czech and Russian literature in the 1810s / David L. Cooper -- Literary metamorphoses and the reframing of enchantment : the Scottish song and folktale cllections of R.H. Cromek, Allan Cunningham and Robert Chambers / Sarah M. Dunnigan -- Thomas Moore, Daniel Maclise and the new mythology : the origin of the harp / Matthew Campbell -- The oral ballad and the printed poem in the Portuguese romantic movement : the case of J.M. da Costa e Silva's Isabel ou a heroina de Aragom / J.J. Dias Marques -- Class, nation and the German folk revival : Heinrich Heine, Georg Büchner and Georg Weerth / Michael Perraudin -- The Estonian national epic, Kalevipoeg : its sources and inception / Madis Arukask -- The Latvian era of folk awakening : from Johann Gottfried Herder's Volkslieder to the voice of an emergent nation / Kristina Jaremko-Porter -- From folklore to folk law : William Morris and the popular sources of legal authority / Marcus Waithe -- Pioneers, friends, rivals : social networks and the English folk-song revival, 1889-1904 / E. David Gregory -- The Bosnian Vila : folklore and orientalism in the fiction of Robert Michel / Riccardo Concetti -- The persistence of revival / Matthew Campbell and Michael Perraudin.

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