The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns

Herausgeber: Carruthers, Gerard

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns explores the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard', Robert Burns (1759-96).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 173mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1293g
• ISBN-13: 9780198846246
• ISBN-10: 019884624X
• Artikelnr.: 69191648

Autorenporträt

Gerard Carruthers is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is General Editor of the ongoing Oxford University Press edition of the collected works of Robert Burns, and is author or editor of 24 books and over 170 academic essays. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a board member of the Ellisland Robert Burns Trust, an Honorary Advisor to the National Trust for Scotland and serves on the Joint Advisory Committee with oversight of Walter Scott's Library at Abbotsford. He is also a Trustee of the Scottish Catholic Heritage Collections Trust.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Gerard Carruthers: Introduction. Robert Burns: Poet and Texts in
Life and Afterlife
* Part I - Texts
* 2: Patrick Scott: The Imprint of His Origin: Robert Burns, John
Wilson, and the Print Culture of Late Eighteenth-Century Ayrshire
* 3: Nigel Leask: 'My Heart's in the Highlands': Poetry, Politics, and
Patronage in Robert Burns's Highland Tour
* 4: Murray Pittock: The Scots Musical Museum
* 5: Kirsteen McCue: 'For the honour of Caledonia': Burns's Songs for
George Thomson
* 6: Jeremy J. Smith: The Pragmatics of Punctuation in the Letters of
Robert Burns
* 7: John Burnett: Robert Burns and the Devil: 'Halloween'
* 8: Gerard Lee McKeever: 'I, Rob, am here': Becoming and Belonging in
the Verse Epistles
* 9: Ronnie Young: The Kirk Satires and Kirk Politics
* 10: Pauline Mackay: Burns and Bawdry
* 11: Robert P. Irvine: 'Tam o' Shanter' - Storytelling and
Antiquarianism
* 12: Gerard Carruthers and Kevin Thomas Gallagher: The Politics of
Robert Burns from the 1780s to the 1790s
* 13: Moira Hansen: Writing to and about Women
* 14: Sandro Jung: Robert Burns and Book Illustration
* Part II - Cultural and Intellectual Contexts
* 15: Fiona Stafford: Burns and the Natural World
* 16: Colin Kidd: Anti-Calvinism and the Ayrshire Enlightenment
* 17: Corey E. Andrews: Robert Burns, Club Society, and Convivial
Sociability
* Part III - The Burns Industry
* 18: David Hopes: Birth of a Collection: Burns Monument Trust and the
formation of Scotland's first literary museum (1814-1900)
* 19: Johnny Rodger: The Architectural Monument to Robert Burns in the
New Age of Identity Politics and Nationalism
* 20: Leith Davis: Sights of Memory: Robert Burns and Romantic-era Book
Illustration
* 21: Murdo Macdonald: Robert Burns and the Visual Arts: Portraiture,
National Landscapes, and the Context of Monuments
* 22: Caroline McCracken-Flesher: Robert Burns and the Cultural
Politics of Food
* 23: Gerard Carruthers and George Smith: Bard Behaviour: Imitating,
Mistaking, and Faking Burns
* 24: Brean Hammond: Afterburn(s): Scholarly and Fictional Receptions
* Part IV - Burns's British Afterlives
* 25: Alex Deans: 'At the Grave of Burns': Robert Burns and British
Romanticism after 1800
* 26: Jon Mee: Why the English had to invent Robert Burns
* 27: Ronald Black: Parallel Universes: Burns and Gaelic
* 28: Kirstie Blair: 'No new note?': Burns and the Victorian
Working-Class Poet
* 29: Catriona M. M. Macdonald and Christopher A. Whatley: 'We'll ne'er
forget the people': Burns and Politics, 1796-1945
* Part V - International Writer
* 30: Jennifer Orr: Robert Burns and Ireland
* 31: Clark McGinn: Dear Guest and Ghost: Celebrating Robert Burns
convivially and globally since 1801
* 32: Thomas Keith: Burns Among the American Abolitionists
* 33: Liam McIlvanney: The View from the Octagon: Robert Burns in New
Zealand
* 34: David Goldie: Robert Burns and Twentieth-Century War
* 35: Josephine Dougal: Iconic Burns: A Shape Shifting 'Sign' of the
Times
* 36: John Ritchie: Burns on Screen: A Critical History of Cinematic
Representations of the Life of the Bard
* 37: Craig Lamont: Burns in The Digital Age
* 38: Matthew Wickman: Robert Burns and the Inhuman
* Part VI - Burns Biography
* 39: Rhona Brown: Burns Biography, 1786-1800
* 40: Carol Baraniuk and Gerard Carruthers: Burns Biography, 1808-1939
* 41: Carol Baraniuk: Burns Biography, 1949-2019
* 42: Kevin Thomas Gallagher: Further Resources