Robert Burns and cultural authority
By: edited by Robert Crawford.
Contributors: Crawford, Robert, 1959-
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Language and culture -- Scotland.; Scotland -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Robert Fergusson's Robert Burns / Robert Crawford; title: Love composition : the solitary vice / A.L. Kennedy; title: Burns, women, and song / Kirsteen McCue; title: 'A very Scottish kind of dash' : Burns's native metric / Douglas Dunn; title: Burns and politics / Marilyn Butler; title: Burns and God / Susan Manning; title: Haunted by authority : nineteenth-century American constructions of Robert Burns and Scotland / Carol McGuirk; title: Authenticating Robert Burns / Nicholas Roe; title: The cotter's kailyard / Andrew Nash; title: MacDiarmid's Burns / Alan Riach; title: Burns's art speech / Seamus Heaney.