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The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as it was not entirely accurate. Burns was an antiquarian, national patriot, pioneer of what today we would call 'folk culture', and a man of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
The Handbook considers Burns's reception in his own time and beyond, extending to his iconic status as a world-writer. Burns was important to the English Romantic poets, in the context of debates about Abolition in the US, in the Victorian era he was widely utilised as a model for different kinds of popular poetry and he has been utilised as a contestant in debates surrounding Scottish and, indeed, British politics, in peacetime and in wartime down to the present day. The writer's afterlife includes not only a large number of biographies but a whole culture of commemoration in art, architecture, fiction, material culture, museum-exhibition and even forged manuscripts and memorabilia as well as appearances, apparently, via Spiritualist seances. The politics of his work channel the fierce debates of late eighteenth-century Scottish ecclesiastical controversy as well as the ages of American, Agrarian and French revolutions. All of this ground is traversed in this Handbook, the largest critical compendium ever assembled about Robert Burns.
Contents
1: Gerard Carruthers: Introduction. Robert Burns: Poet and Texts in Life and Afterlife
Part I - Texts
2: Patrick Scott: The Imprint of His Origin: Robert Burns, John Wilson, and the Print Culture of Late Eighteenth-Century Ayrshire
3: Nigel Leask: 'My Heart's in the Highlands': Poetry, Politics, and Patronage in Robert Burns's Highland Tour
4: Murray Pittock: The Scots Musical Museum
5: Kirsteen McCue: 'For the honour of Caledonia': Burns's Songs for George Thomson
6: Jeremy J. Smith: The Pragmatics of Punctuation in the Letters of Robert Burns
7: John Burnett: Robert Burns and the Devil: 'Halloween'
8: Gerard Lee McKeever: 'I, Rob, am here': Becoming and Belonging in the Verse Epistles
9: Ronnie Young: The Kirk Satires and Kirk Politics
10: Pauline Mackay: Burns and Bawdry
11: Robert P. Irvine: 'Tam o' Shanter' - Storytelling and Antiquarianism
12: Gerard Carruthers and Kevin Thomas Gallagher: The Politics of Robert Burns from the 1780s to the 1790s
13: Moira Hansen: Writing to and about Women
14: Sandro Jung: Robert Burns and Book Illustration
Part II - Cultural and Intellectual Contexts
15: Fiona Stafford: Burns and the Natural World
16: Colin Kidd: Anti-Calvinism and the Ayrshire Enlightenment
17: Corey E. Andrews: Robert Burns, Club Society, and Convivial Sociability
Part III - The Burns Industry
18: David Hopes: Birth of a Collection: Burns Monument Trust and the formation of Scotland's first literary museum (1814-1900)
19: Johnny Rodger: The Architectural Monument to Robert Burns in the New Age of Identity Politics and Nationalism
20: Leith Davis: Sights of Memory: Robert Burns and Romantic-era Book Illustration
21: Murdo Macdonald: Robert Burns and the Visual Arts: Portraiture, National Landscapes, and the Context of Monuments
22: Caroline McCracken-Flesher: Robert Burns and the Cultural Politics of Food
23: Gerard Carruthers and George Smith: Bard Behaviour: Imitating, Mistaking, and Faking Burns
24: Brean Hammond: Afterburn(s): Scholarly and Fictional Receptions
Part IV - Burns's British Afterlives
25: Alex Deans: 'At the Grave of Burns': Robert Burns and British Romanticism after 1800
26: Jon Mee: Why the English had to invent Robert Burns
27: Ronald Black: Parallel Universes: Burns and Gaelic
28: Kirstie Blair: 'No new note?': Burns and the Victorian Working-Class Poet
29: Catriona M. M. Macdonald and Christopher A. Whatley: 'We'll ne'er forget the people': Burns and Politics, 1796-1945
Part V - International Writer
30: Jennifer Orr: Robert Burns and Ireland
31: Clark McGinn: Dear Guest and Ghost: Celebrating Robert Burns convivially and globally since 1801
32: Thomas Keith: Burns Among the American Abolitionists
33: Liam McIlvanney: The View from the Octagon: Robert Burns in New Zealand
34: David Goldie: Robert Burns and Twentieth-Century War
35: Josephine Dougal: Iconic Burns: A Shape Shifting 'Sign' of the Times
36: John Ritchie: Burns on Screen: A Critical History of Cinematic Representations of the Life of the Bard
37: Craig Lamont: Burns in The Digital Age
38: Matthew Wickman: Robert Burns and the Inhuman
Part VI - Burns Biography
39: Rhona Brown: Burns Biography, 1786-1800
40: Carol Baraniuk & Gerard Carruthers: Burns Biography, 1808-1939
41: Carol Baraniuk: Burns Biography, 1949-2019
42: Kevin Thomas Gallagher: Further Resources
