Robert Burns in global culture / edited by Murray Pittock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pittock, Murray.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796--Criticism and interpretation.

Burns, Robert.

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796--Influence.

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Robert Burns in Global Culture is a collection that breaks new ground in treating Burns's poetry and influence in an international context. Widely recognized as poet of global significance in the nineteenth century, Burns's reputation has suffered from the critical turns in Romanticism since 1945 and is only now beginning to be seen in its proper context. Following on from the celebrations across the world to mark Burns' 250th anniversary in 2009, this collection asks questions concerning the nature of Burns's global influence in the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth, examines the extraordinary ways in which his writing combines a distinctively progressive agenda with deceptively traditional styles, and emplaces his reputation at the heart of questions of American exceptionalism, European democracy, British imperial identities, Italian politics, French literary history, questions of desire and sexuality, the Burns Supper and the extraordinary cult of Burns statues. 'Robert Burns in Global Culture' combines literary criticism, history, cultural theory and comparative literature to create a set of powerful, new and unique directions in the study of this major Romantic poet.

Contents:

"A long farewell to all my greatness": the history of the reputation of Robert Burns / Murray Pittock

Robert Burns and the mind of Europe / Murray Pittock

Burns and European Identities / Robert Crawford

"Nature's poet" and socialist model : The reception of Robert Burns in Germany / Silvia Mergenthal

Burns in Italy : Giuseppe Chiarini's "Roberto Burns" / Frauke Reitemeier

The aestheticization of Robert Burns in nineteenth-century French literature / Alan Rawes

Enlightened religion and enlightened sex : Robert Burns and his French contemporaries / Delmaire

"If ever there was a man who felt, it was Burns" : Burns and desire / Pauline Anne Gray

Translating Burns : The bibliography of Scottish literature in translation : Past, present, and future perspectives / Andrew Monnickendam

"Their groves o' sweet myrtles" : Robert Burns and the Scottish colonial experience / R.D.S. Jack

Vehement celebrations : The global celebration of the Burns supper since 1801 / Nigel Leask

Robert Burns, memorialization, and the "Heart-beatings" of Victorian Scotland / Clark McGinn

"Rules of art" : the life of Burns on page and stage, 1800-1954 / Christopher A. Whatley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index.

ISBN:

9781611480306

1611480302

9781611480313

1611480310

9780838757482

0838757480

OCLC:

645790798