textbook The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns Edited by Gerard Carruthers July 2009 Pb 978 0 7486 3649 5 £18.99 256pp 234 x 156 mm Hb 978 0 7486 3648 8 £65.00 A comprehensive introduction to Robert Burns in a contemporary critical context Description The Editor The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides detailed commentary on the Gerard Carruthers is Reader in Scottish artistry of Burns, complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife Literature at the University of Glasgow. of this most iconic of world writers. The biographical construction of Burns is He is General Editor of the multi- examined as are his relations to Scottish, Romantic and International cultures. Burns volume Oxford University Press edition is also approached in terms of his engagements with Ecology, Gender, Pastoral, of the works of Robert Burns and is Politics, Pornography, Slavery, and Song-culture. There is also extensive coverage of Director of the Centre for Robert Burns publishing history, including Burns’s place in popular, bourgeois and Enlightenment Studies. cultures during the late eighteenth century. This is the most modern collection of critical responses to Burns from United Kingdom and North American scholars, Series which seeks to place Burns as a ‘mainstream’ man of Enlightenment and Romantic impetus and to explain the enduring, and sometimes controversial, fascination for Edinburgh Companions to both the man and his work over more than two hundred years. Scottish Literature Key Features Readership • Entirely new readings of Burns’s major poems Students, lecturers and teachers of • Modern critical approaches to Burns in the context of biographical criticism, Scottish literature, Scottish poetry gender, publishing and reception history Eighteenth-Century Literature and • Detailed discussion of the cultural afterlife of Burns Romanticism. • Includes a synoptic bibliography Selling Points • 2009 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns and a range of conferences and events are being held throughout the year • Editor is a leading authority on Burns Literary Studies 22 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LF tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 662 0053 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com textbook The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns Edited by Gerard Carruthers Table of Contents Courses Dedication Scottish Literature Abbreviations Scottish Poetry Brief Biography of Robert Burns Robert Burns Introduction, Gerard Carruthers Romantic Literature 1. Burns and Publishing, Gerard Carruthers 2. Burns and Women, Sarah Dunnigan 3. Burns and the Rhetoric of Narrative, Kenneth Simpson 4. Burns and the Poetics of Abolition, Nigel Leask 5. Burns and Politics, Colin Kidd, 6. Burns’s Songs and Poetic Craft, Kirsteen McCue 7. Burns and Robert Fergusson, Rhona Brown 8. Burns and Romantic Writing, Fiona Stafford 9. Burns the Critic, Corey Andrews 10. Burns, Scott and Intertextuality, Alison Lumsden 11. Burns and Virgil, Steven R. McKenna 12. Burns and Transnational Culture, Leith Davis Notes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index Contributors Corey E. Andrews is an assistant professor of English at Youngstown State University. His book Literary Nationalism in Eighteenth- Century Scottish Club Poetry was published in 2004. His current book project is entitled Scots in English: Cross-Cultural Poetics in Eighteenth-Century Scotland. Rhona Brown is a lecturer in the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. She specialises in eighteenth-century Scottish literature, and is currently preparing a monograph on the works of Robert Burns's biggest poetic influence, Robert Fergusson. Gerard Carruthers is head of the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, where he is also Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies and General Editor of the Oxford University Press edition of the works of Robert Burns. Leith Davis is a professor of English and the Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She is the author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1832 (Stanford UP, 1998) and Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1724-1874 (Notre Dame UP, 2005) as well as co-editor (with Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen) of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge UP, 2004). Sarah Dunnigan is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. She has published on medieval, Renaissance, and twentieth-century Scottish literature, and is completing a book on Scottish literary fairy tales. Colin Kidd is Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow. He was Editor of the Scottish Historical Review between 1999 and 2004. His most recent book is Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland 1500-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Literary Studies Literary Studies 22 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LF tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 662 0053 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com textbook The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns Edited by Gerard Carruthers Contributors (cont.) Nigel Leask is Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on 18th century and Romantic literature and culture and is currently completing a study of 'Robert Burns and Pastoral'. He is a co-editor of the new Oxford 'Works of Robert Burns' and is responsible for the first volume 'Miscellaneous Prose'. Alison Lumsden is a Senior Lecturer in English and Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen. She is a General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and Co-director of the Walter Scott Research Centre. She has published on many aspects of Scottish literature and edited several volumes of Scott's fiction. Kirsteen McCue is lecturer in the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow where she is also Associate Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies. She has published on Scottish song culture of the 18th and 19th centuries and is currently editing two volumes of songs for the Stirling/South Carolina Research edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. She will be the editor of Burns's songs for George Thomson as part of the forthcoming Oxford University Press edition of the Collected Works of Robert Burns. Steven R. McKenna has taught in several Colleges and universities in the USA. Presently, he teaches for Graceland University. In addition to other articles on Burns, he has also published in other areas of Scots literature. Ken Simpson was Founding Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Strathclyde. He is currently Honorary Professor of Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow and his publications include The Protean Scot, Burns Now and Love and Liberty: Robert Burns - A Bicentenary Celebration. Fiona Stafford is a Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in English at Somerville College. She has published widely on Scottish poetry and the literature of the four nations. Her books include Starting lines in Scottish, English, and Irish Poetry: From Burns to Heaney, published in 2000. Literary Studies 22 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LF tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 662 0053 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com.