The Genius of Scotland

The Cultural Production of Robert Burns, 1785-1834

Corey Andrews (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2015
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-29436-3 (ISBN)

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The Genius of Scotland explores the wide-ranging reception history of Robert Burns in the 18th and 19th centuries. The book investigates the figure of Burns as a ‘cultural production’ that was constructed by warring cultural forces in the literary marketplace. The Genius of Scotland debunks both the hagiographic and vituperative representations of the poet from this period, revealing not only how (and why) he was culturally produced as a national ‘genius’ but also how the process continues to influence our understanding of Burns into the present day.

Dr. Corey E. Andrews is Associate Professor of English at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. He has published a number of articles and chapters on Robert Burns and Scottish poetry in The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns, Scottish Literary Review, Robert Burns and Friends, The International Journal of Scottish Literature, Studies in Hogg and His World, and The Burns Chronicle. His book Literary Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Club Poetry appeared in 2004, and he has twice received the W. Ormiston Roy Memorial Fellowship at the University of South Carolina Libraries for his research on Burns’s reception history.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Genius of Scotland
Chapter One: Ploughman, Minstrel, Bard: Poetic Personæ and the rise of Genius Theory
Chapter Two: ‘Who are you Mr. Burns?’: Admirers and Sceptics of the ‘Heaven-taught Ploughman, 1786-1788’
Chapter Three: Ungrateful country! ill-requited Burns!’: The Decline and Fall of the Heaven-taught Ploughman’, 1788-1796
Chapter Four: ‘The Powers and Failings of Genius’: Constructing Burns’s Posthumous Reputation, 1796-1816
Chapter Five: ‘Great Shadow! Hide Thy face’: Scottish Poetry after Burns, 1797-1819
Conclusion: The ‘Only Worthy Successor’: The Career of James Hogg, 1801-1834
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.3.2015
Reihe/Serie	SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; 24
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-29436-8 / 9004294368
ISBN-13	978-90-04-29436-3 / 9789004294363
Zustand	Neuware