Beside the Bard Scottish Lowland Poetry in the Age of Burns / George S. Christian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christian, George S., author.

Series:

Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scottish poetry.

Literature.

English poetry--Scottish authors.

Scottish poetry--18th century--History and criticism.

English poetry--Scottish authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Scotland.

Scotland--In literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Beside the Bard argues that Scottish poetry in the age of Burns reclaims not a single past, dominated and overwritten by the unitary national language of an elite ruling class, but a past that conceptualizes the Scottish nation in terms of local self-identification, linguistic multiplicity, cultural and religious difference, and transnational political and cultural affiliations. This fluid conception of the nation may accommodate a post-Union British self-identification, but it also recognizes the instrumental and historically contingent nature of "Britishness." Whether male or female, loyalist or radical, literati or autodidacts, poets such as Alexander Wilson, Carolina Olyphant, Robert Tannahill, and John Lapraik, among others, adamantly refuse to imagine a single nation, British or otherwise, instead preferring an open, polyvocal field, on which they can stage new national and personal formations and fight new revolutions. In this sense, "Scotland" is a revolutionary category, always subject to creative destruction and reformation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction

1 Burns’s Ayrshire “Bardies”: John Lapraik and David Sillar

2 Burns and the Women “Peasant” Poets: Janet Little and Isobel Pagan

3 Alexander Wilson and the Price of Radicalism

4 Lady Nairne: Burns’s Jacobite Other

5 “In the Shadow of Burns”: Robert Tannahill

6 Burns and the Jacobins: James Kennedy and Alexander Geddes

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-242) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781684481835

168448183X

9781684481859

1684481856

OCLC:

1147831279