The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns

Gerard Carruthers

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2009

The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns

Gerard Carruthers

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748636501

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About this book

The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides both a comprehensive introduction to and the most contemporary critical contexts for the study of Robert Burns. Detailed commentary on the artistry of Burns is complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife of this most iconic of world writers. The biographical construction of Burns is examined as are his relations to Scottish, Romantic and International cultures. Burns is also approached in terms of his engagements with Ecology, Gender, Pastoral, Politics, Pornography, Slavery, and Song-culture, and there is extensive coverage of publishing history including Burns's place in popular, bourgeois and Enlightenment cultures during the late eighteenth century.

This is the most modern collection of critical responses to Burns from scholars from the United Kingdom and North America, which, more than ever before, seeks to place Burns as a 'mainstream' man of Enlightenment and Romantic impetus and to explain the enduring and sometimes controversial fascination for both the man and his work over more than two hundred years.

Key Features

Modern critical approaches to Burns: including readings of biographical construction, gender and publishing and reception history
Detailed discussion of the cultural afterlife of Burns
Location of Burns in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods
Entirely new readings of Burns's major poems

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Editions and Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Series Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
A Brief Biography of Robert Burns Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Gerard Carruthers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER ONE Burns and Publishing Gerard Carruthers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
CHAPTER TWO Burns and Women Sarah Dunnigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
CHAPTER THREE Burns and the Rhetoric of Narrative Kenneth Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
CHAPTER FOUR Burns and the Poetics of Abolition Nigel Leask Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
CHAPTER FIVE Burns and Politics Colin Kidd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
CHAPTER SIX Burns’s Songs and Poetic Craft Kirsteen McCue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
CHAPTER SEVEN Burns and Robert Fergusson Rhona Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
CHAPTER EIGHT Burns and Romantic Writing Fiona Stafford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
CHAPTER NINE Burns the Critic Corey E. Andrews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
CHAPTER TEN Burns, Scott and Intertextuality Alison Lumsden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
CHAPTER ELEVEN Burns and Virgil Steven R. McKenna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
CHAPTER TWELVE Burns and Transnational Culture Leith Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Endnotes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: June 25, 2009
ISBN: 9780748636501