The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns

NOTE EDITORE

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as it was not entirely accurate. Burns was an antiquarian, national patriot, pioneer of what today we would call 'folk culture', and a man of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The Handbook considers Burns's reception in his own time and beyond, extending to his iconic status as a world-writer. Burns was important to the English Romantic poets, in the context of debates about Abolition in the US, in the Victorian era he was widely utilised as a model for different kinds of popular poetry and he has been utilised as a contestant in debates surrounding Scottish and, indeed, British politics, in peacetime and in wartime down to the present day. The writer's afterlife includes not only a large number of biographies but a whole culture of commemoration in art, architecture, fiction, material culture, museum-exhibition and even forged manuscripts and memorabilia as well as appearances, apparently, via Spiritualist seances. The politics of his work channel the fierce debates of late eighteenth-century Scottish ecclesiastical controversy as well as the ages of American, Agrarian and French revolutions. All of this ground is traversed in this Handbook, the largest critical compendium ever assembled about Robert Burns.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction. Robert Burns: Poet and Texts in Life and Afterlife2 - The Imprint of His Origin: Robert Burns, John Wilson, and the Print Culture of Late Eighteenth-Century Ayrshire3 - 'My Heart's in the Highlands': Poetry, Politics, and Patronage in Robert Burns's Highland Tour4 - The Scots Musical Museum5 - 'For the honour of Caledonia': Burns's Songs for George Thomson6 - The Pragmatics of Punctuation in the Letters of Robert Burns7 - Robert Burns and the Devil: 'Halloween'8 - 'I, Rob, am here': Becoming and Belonging in the Verse Epistles9 - The Kirk Satires and Kirk Politics10 - Burns and Bawdry11 - 'Tam o' Shanter' - Storytelling and Antiquarianism12 - The Politics of Robert Burns from the 1780s to the 1790s13 - Writing to and about Women14 - Robert Burns and Book Illustration15 - Burns and the Natural World16 - Anti-Calvinism and the Ayrshire Enlightenment17 - Robert Burns, Club Society, and Convivial Sociability18 - Birth of a Collection: Burns Monument Trust and the formation of Scotland's first literary museum (1814-1900)19 - The Architectural Monument to Robert Burns in the New Age of Identity Politics and Nationalism20 - Sights of Memory: Robert Burns and Romantic-era Book Illustration21 - Robert Burns and the Visual Arts: Portraiture, National Landscapes, and the Context of Monuments22 - Robert Burns and the Cultural Politics of Food23 - Bard Behaviour: Imitating, Mistaking, and Faking Burns24 - Afterburn(s): Scholarly and Fictional Receptions25 - 'At the Grave of Burns': Robert Burns and British Romanticism after 180026 - Why the English had to invent Robert Burns27 - Parallel Universes: Burns and Gaelic28 - 'No new note?': Burns and the Victorian Working-Class Poet29 - 'We'll ne'er forget the people': Burns and Politics, 1796-194530 - Robert Burns and Ireland31 - Dear Guest and Ghost: Celebrating Robert Burns convivially and globally since 180132 - Burns Among the American Abolitionists33 - The View from the Octagon: Robert Burns in New Zealand34 - Robert Burns and Twentieth-Century War35 - Iconic Burns: A Shape Shifting 'Sign' of the Times36 - Burns on Screen: A Critical History of Cinematic Representations of the Life of the Bard37 - Burns in The Digital Age38 - Robert Burns and the Inhuman39 - Burns Biography, 1786-180040 - Burns Biography, 1808-193941 - Burns Biography, 1949-201942 - Further Resources

AUTORE

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.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198846246
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 253 x 38.0 x 180 mm Ø 1278 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 31
• Pagine Arabe: 656