James Macpherson's Ossian appealed strongly to eighteenth-century female readers, writers and artists, but women constitute a kind of vanishing point in recent feminist readings of the poems. This essay aims to rectify this oversight by examining two of the poems’ most prominent female figures: the warrior and the mourner. In both roles Ossian's women participate in a long tradition of feminised representations of the nation. Many female warriors seek death in battle, and female mourners often kill themselves as a means of extinguishing their insufferable grief. Both mourners and warriors lead us back to the figure of the female corpse.

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复兴波斯女性尸体：波斯诗歌中的哀悼者和战士

詹姆斯·麦克弗森（James Macpherson）的《波斯人》（Ossian）吸引了18世纪的女性读者，作家和艺术家，但女性在最近的女权主义诗歌解读中却消失了。本文旨在通过检查诗歌中最突出的两个女性形象：战士和送葬者，来纠正这种疏忽。在这两个角色中，Ossian的妇女都参与了该国女性化代表的悠久传统。许多女战士在战斗中寻求死亡，而哀悼者通常会自杀以消灭自己无法忍受的悲伤。哀悼者和战士们都把我们带回了女性尸体的身影。