Overview
Highlights the relevance of the “nation” in transatlantic studies
Explores the complexity of Anglophone literary relations in a nineteenth-century Atlantic context
Contributes to transatlantic studies, transnational studies, American studies, and reception studies
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Burns Beyond Scotland
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American Print Culture and Poets
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Robert Burns
- national poet of Scotland
- memory studies
- transatlantic studies
- transnational literature
- reception studies
- Anglophone literature
- eighteenth-century Atlantic literature
- nineteenth-century Atlantic literature
- Scottish poetry
- Scottish literature
- Robert Burns American editions
- British and Irish Literature
About this book
This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.1786-1866. Though Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland’s “National Poet”, his works were frequently reprinted in New York and Philadelphia; his verse mimicked by an emerging canon of American poets; and his songs appropriated by both abolitionists and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War era. Adopting a transnational, Atlantic Studies perspective that shifts emphasis from Burns as national poet to transnational icon, this book charts the reception, dissemination and cultural memory of Burns and his works in the United States up to 1866.
Reviews
“It is a great strength of this book that it does not treat the question of reception in a unidirectional way, preferring instead to chart the ways in which Burns both drew from and contributed to the emerging idea of America. Sood’s study does an impressive job of charting the different forms of exchange that connected Burns before and after his death to a country he had never seen at first hand.” (Alex Broadhead, Modern Language Review, Vol. 115 (3), July, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Arun Sood is Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth, UK. Previously, he has taught and studied at the universities of Georgetown (US), Glasgow (UK), Amsterdam (NL) and Aberdeen (UK).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Robert Burns and the United States of America
Book Subtitle: Poetry, Print, and Memory 1786–1866
Authors: Arun Sood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94445-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94444-9Published: 02 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06853-0Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94445-6Published: 23 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 275
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Comparative Literature