Beside the Bard : Scottish Lowland poetry in the age of Burns /

"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, cu...

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Main Author: Christian, George S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]
Series:Transits (Bucknell University)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Burns's Ayrshire "Bardies": John Lapraik and David Sillar
  • Burns and the Women "Peasant" Poets: Janet Little and Isobel Pagan
  • Alexander Wilson and the Price of Radicalism
  • Lady Nairne: Burns's Jacobite Other
  • "In the Shadow of Burns": Robert Tannahill
  • Burns and the Jacobins: James Kennedy and Alexander Geddes
  • Conclusion.