The genius of Scotland : : the cultural production of Robert Burns, 1785-1834 / / by Corey E. Andrews.
The Genius of Scotland: The Cultural Production of Robert Burns, 1785-1834 explores the wide-ranging reception history of Robert Burns by examining the sources of his reputation as the ‘Genius of Scotland’ in the Scottish Enlightenment and beyond. Evaluating his changing stature in the eighteenth an...
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| Superior document: | Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature series ; v. 24 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi. c2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Author The Genius of Scotland
- Introduction / Author The Genius of Scotland
- Ploughman, Minstrel, Bard: Poetic Personæ and the Rise of Genius Theory / Author The Genius of Scotland
- ‘Who are you Mr. Burns?’: Admirers and Sceptics of the ‘Heaven-taught Ploughman’, 1786-1788 / Author The Genius of Scotland
- ‘Ungrateful country! ill-requited Burns!’: The Decline and Fall of the ‘Heaven-taught Ploughman’, 1788-1796 / Author The Genius of Scotland
- ‘The Powers and Failings of Genius’: Constructing Burns’s Posthumous Reputation, 1796-1816 / Author The Genius of Scotland
- ‘Great Shadow! Hide Thy Face’: Scottish Poetry after Burns, 1797-1819 / Author The Genius of Scotland
- The ‘Only Worthy Successor’: The Career of James Hogg, 1801-1834 / Author The Genius of Scotland
- Bibliography / Author The Genius of Scotland
- Index / Author The Genius of Scotland.