The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns / / Gerard Carruthers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Carruthers, Gerard,
• MitwirkendeR: Andrews, Corey E.,; Brown, Rhona,; Carruthers, Gerard,; Davis, Leith,; Dunnigan, Sarah,; Kidd, Colin,; Leask, Nigel,; Lumsden, Alison,; McCue, Kirsteen,; McKenna, Steven R.,; Simpson, Kenneth,; Stafford, Fiona,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editions and Abbreviations -- Series Editors’ Preface -- A Brief Biography of Robert Burns -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Burns and Publishing -- CHAPTER TWO Burns and Women -- CHAPTER THREE Burns and the Rhetoric of Narrative -- CHAPTER FOUR Burns and the Poetics of Abolition -- CHAPTER FIVE Burns and Politics -- CHAPTER SIX Burns’s Songs and Poetic Craft -- CHAPTER SEVEN Burns and Robert Fergusson -- CHAPTER EIGHT Burns and Romantic Writing -- CHAPTER NINE Burns the Critic -- CHAPTER TEN Burns, Scott and Intertextuality -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Burns and Virgil -- CHAPTER TWELVE Burns and Transnational Culture -- Endnotes -- Further Reading -- Notes on Contributors -- Index