The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns

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The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides both a comprehensive introduction to and the most contemporary critical contexts for the study of Robert Burns. Detailed commentary on the artistry of Burns is complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife of this most iconic of world writers. The biographical construction of Burns is examined as are his relations to Scottish, Romantic and International cultures. Burns is also approached in terms of his engagements with Ecology, Gender, Pastoral, Politics, Pornography, Slavery, and Song-culture, and there is extensive coverage of publishing history including Burns's place in popular, bourgeois and Enlightenment cultures during the late eighteenth century. Cover Copyright Contents Editions and Abbreviations Series Editors’ Preface A Brief Biography of Robert Burns Introduction CHAPTER ONE Burns and Publishing CHAPTER TWO Burns and Women CHAPTER THREE Burns and the Rhetoric of Narrative CHAPTER FOUR Burns and the Poetics of Abolition CHAPTER FIVE Burns and Politics CHAPTER SIX Burns’s Songs and Poetic Craft CHAPTER SEVEN Burns and Robert Fergusson CHAPTER EIGHT Burns and Romantic Writing CHAPTER NINE Burns the Critic CHAPTER TEN Burns, Scott and Intertextuality CHAPTER ELEVEN Burns and Virgil CHAPTER TWELVE Burns and Transnational Culture Endnotes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index