Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture

The fourteen essays included in Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture re-orient scholarly understanding of Robert Burns by focusing on the reception and representation of the Scottish poet and songwriter in the Americas. Divided into five sections, the volume explores: transatlantic concerns in Burns's own work; Burns's early publication in North America; Burns's reception in the Americas; Burns's creation as a site of cultural memory; and extra-literary remediations of Burns, including contemporary digital representations.

Introduction; 1: Burns's Transatlantic Concerns; 1: Slavery as a Political Metaphor in Scotland and Ireland in the Age of Burns; 2: Burns, Scotland, and the American Revolution; 2: Burns and New World Print Networks; 3: Tracing the Transatlantic Bard's Availability; 4: "Guid black prent": Robert Burns and the Contemporary Scottish and American Periodical Press; 3: Reading Burns in the Americas; 5: Burns's Political Reputation in North America; 6: America's Bard 1; 7: The Presence of Robert Burns in Victorian and Edwardian Canada; 8: Robert Burns and Latin America; 4: Robert Burns and Transatlantic Cultural Memory; 9: Robert Burns's Transatlantic Afterlives; 10: Burns and Aphorism; or, Poetry into Proverb: His Persistence in Cultural Memory Beyond Scotland; 11: The Robert Burns 1859 Centenary: Mapping Transatlantic (Dis)location; 5: Remediating Burns in Transatlantic Culture; 12: Burns in the Park: A Tale of Three Monuments 1; 13: Magnetic Attraction: The Transatlantic Songs of Robert Burns and Serge Hovey; 14: Transatlanticism and Beyond: Robert Burns and the World Wide Web