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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 wor...

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Main Author: Carruthers, Gerard (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Andrews, Corey E. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Brown, Rhona (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Davis, Leith (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Dunnigan, Sarah (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Kidd, Colin (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Leask, Nigel (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Lumsden, Alison (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), McCue, Kirsteen (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), McKenna, Steven R. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Simpson, Kenneth (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Stafford, Fiona (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Series:Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSL
Subjects:
Literary Studies
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Summary: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 FeaturesModern critical approaches to Burns: including readings of biographical construction, gender and publishing and reception historyDetailed discussion of the cultural afterlife of BurnsLocation of Burns in the Enlightenment and Romantic periodsEntirely new readings of Burns's major poems
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages)
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
ISBN:9780748636501
Access:Restricted for use by site license.

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