Title
National Culture Wars: Samuel Johnson, William Shaw, and the Ossian Controversy
Document Type
Grant Proposal
Date Accepted
Summer 2004
Project Description/Abstract
A Summer 2004 Grant of $3,000.00 would fund a month (Summer Session II) of research at home and at the Beineke Library of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, to the specific end of completing Chapters 6 and 7 in my book, National Culture Wars in Imperial Great Britain: Johnson, Ossian, and the Irish Literary Renaissance, for Penn State University Press. The focus of my research will be transcribing William Shaw’s manuscript correspondence, which I have located at Yale, and then reading dozens of recent books and articles aimed at rehabilitating the dubious reputation of phony Ossian poetry concocted by James Macpherson. A full bibliography of these readings appears below, after a synopsis of my book. Your grant will help me to expose a major literary forgery and to correct misleading modern scholarship about it.
Recommended Citation
Curley, Thomas M. (2004). National Culture Wars: Samuel Johnson, William Shaw, and the Ossian Controversy. CARS Summer Grants. Item 128.
https://vc.bridgew.edu/summer_grant/128