Harp and the Constitution

Joanne Parker, Ph.D. (2001, Leeds), is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Exeter. She is the author of England’s Darling: The Victorian Cult of Alfred the Great (MUP, 2007) and Britannia Obscura: Mapping Hidden Britain (Cape, 2014).

• Acknowledgements ... ixList of Illustrations ... xNotes on Contributors ... xiMyths of Celtic and Gothic Origin: An Introduction ... 1Joanne ParkerPart 1The Gothic1 Tribal Ancestors and Moral Role Patterns ... 13Joep Leerssen2 Eighteenth-Century Gothic before The Castle of Otranto ... 26Nick Groom3 Johnson and the Teutonic Roots of English ... 47Robert DeMaria, Jr.</>4 Wordsworth’s Gothic Education ... 66Tom Duggett5 A Tale of Two Kings: The ‘Celtic’ Arthur and the ‘Gothic’ Alfred ... 97Joanne ParkerPart 2The Celtic6 The Rediscovery of the British Druids ... 119Ronald Hutton7 Ossianism and the Arthurian Revival: The Case of Richard Hole’s Arthur; or the Northern Enchantment (1789) ... 134Dafydd Moore8 Strange Meetings: the Romantic Poets and the Stone Circles of the Lake District ... 156Tim Fulford9 Reigning with Swords of Meteoric Iron: Archangel Michael and the British New Jerusalem ... 174Amy Hale10 From Pondal (1835–1917) to Cabanillas (1876–1956): Ossian and Arthur in the Making of a Celtic Galicia ... 189Juan Miguel Zarandona11 The Role of Alesia, Bibracte and Gergovia in the Mythology of the French State ... 209John CollisSelect Bibliography ... 229Index ... 250