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Robert Burns and Pastoral Nigel Leask (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow)

Robert Burns and Pastoral par Nigel Leask (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow)

Robert Burns and Pastoral Nigel Leask (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow)

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Résumé

This book restores the long marginalised Scottish poet Robert Burns to his rightful place as a major poet of the 18th century and Romantic period. It discusses his education as a farmer during the revolutionary period of 'improvement' in 18th-century Scotland, decision to write 'Scots pastoral' poetry, and influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Robert Burns and Pastoral Résumé

Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland Nigel Leask (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow)

Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the writings of Robert Burns (1759-1796), arguably the most original poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake, and the creator of the first modern vernacular style in British poetry. Although still celebrated as Scotland's national poet, Burns has long been marginalised in English literary studies worldwide, due to a mistaken view that his poetry is linguistically incomprehensible and of interest to Scottish readers only. Nigel Leask challenges this view by interpreting Burns's poetry as an innovative and critical engagement with the experience of rural modernity, namely to the revolutionary transformation of Scottish agriculture and society in the decades between 1760 and 1800, thereby resituating it within the mainstream of the Scottish and European enlightenments. Detailed study of the literary, social, and historical contexts of Burns's poetry explodes the myth of the 'Heaven-taught ploughman', revealing his poetic artfulness and critical acumen as a social observer, as well as his significance as a Romantic precursor. Leask discusses Burns's radical decision to write 'Scots pastoral' (rather than English georgic) poetry in the tradition of Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson, focusing on themes of Scottish and British identity, agricultural improvement, poetic self-fashioning, language, politics, religion, patronage, poverty, antiquarianism, and the animal world. The book offers fresh interpretations of all Burns's major poems and some of the songs, the first to do so since Thomas Crawford's landmark study of 1960. It concludes with a new assessment of his importance for British Romanticism and to a 'Four Nations' understanding of Scottish literature and culture.

Robert Burns and Pastoral Avis

In Robert Burns and Pastoral, Leask updates the big book on Burns' for a twenty-first-century audience, situating Burns within a complex frame of national and international historical forces and ideas. * Sarah Sharp, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 *

À propos de Nigel Leask (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow)

Nigel Leask was appointed to Glasgow's Regius Chair of English Language and Literature in 2004, and is currently Head of the School of Critical Studies. He was previously Reader in Romantic Literature in the English Faculty at Cambridge University. He has published widely in the area of Romantic literature and culture, with a special emphasis on empire, orientalism, and travel writing, as well as Scottish literature and thought 1750-1850. His most recent book, Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late-18th Century Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2010) won the Saltire Prize for the best Scottish Research Book of 2010. He has also taught at the universities of Bologna and the UNAM, Mexico City. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Sommaire

INTRODUCTION: 'THE HEAVEN-TAUGHT PLOUGHMAN' ; 1. Burns and the 'New Husbandry' ; 2. Scots Pastoral ; 3. The Making of a Poet ; 4. Pastoral Politics ; 5. Beasties ; 6. Hellfire and Commonsense ; 7. The Annals of the Poor ; 8. The Deil and the Exciseman ; 9. Across the Shadow Line: Burns and British Romanticism ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Informations supplémentaires

GOR013304591
9780198732426
0198732422
Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland Nigel Leask (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow)
Nigel Leask (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow)
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Oxford University Press
20150709
362
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