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By Sharon Alker,Leith Davis,Holly Faith, Dr Nelson,Dr Alker Sharon,Professor Davis Leith

ISBN-10: 1409405761

ISBN-13: 9781409405764

While fresh scholarship has usefully located Burns in the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish nationwide identification, Robert Burns and Transatlantic tradition considers Burns's impression within the usa, Canada, and South the USA, the place he has served variously as a website of cultural reminiscence and of inventive negotiation. bold in its scope, the quantity is split into 5 sections that discover: transatlantic issues in Burns's personal paintings, Burns's early booklet in North the USA, Burns's reception within the Americas, Burns's construction as a website of cultural reminiscence, and extra-literary remediations of Burns, together with modern electronic representations. by means of tracing the transatlantic modulations of the poet and songwriter and his works, Robert Burns and Transatlantic tradition sheds new mild at the circuits connecting Scotland and Britain with the evolving cultures of the Americas from the past due eighteenth century to the present.

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