Paul Malgrati is Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Global Burns Supper: A Typology' in Burns Chronicle, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, September 2021; 'Joe Corrie's In Time o' Strife, the General Strike of 1926, and the Impasse of Insurgent Masculinity' in Studies in Scottish Literature 46/1, pp.46-57, 2020. [Available online] and 'Pit and Plough: Joe Corrie's Burns' in Burns Chronicle, Kilmarnock: Robert Burns World Federation, January, pp.62-69, 2020. This is his first book.

This study into Burns’ politics and its cultural resonance has the narrative drive of a good novel and the insight of a shrewd observer.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Scotland’s ‘Bardocracy’ 1. Explosive Memory: Burns Enters the Twentieth Century (1914–1919) 2. Renaissance, Iconoclasm and Burnsian Reformation (1920–1930) 3. Relic or Messiah? (1930–1940)4. ‘See Yonder Poor’: The Bard of Welfare (1941–1948) 5. Into the Cold War: Checkpoint Rabbie (1948–1959)6. Indigenous Dreams and Kailyard Politics: Burns After Empire (1960–1979) 7. The Bardic Politics of Scottish Devolution (1979–1999) 8. Rabbie for Yes? (2000–2014) Epilogue: A Poetic Constitution Bibliography Index

Paul Malgrati is Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Global Burns Supper: A Typology' in Burns Chronicle, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, September 2021; 'Joe Corrie's In Time o' Strife, the General Strike of 1926, and the Impasse of Insurgent Masculinity' in Studies in Scottish Literature 46/1, pp.46-57, 2020. [Available online] and 'Pit and Plough: Joe Corrie's Burns' in Burns Chronicle, Kilmarnock: Robert Burns World Federation, January, pp.62-69, 2020. This is his first book.

This study into Burns’ politics and its cultural resonance has the narrative drive of a good novel and the insight of a shrewd observer.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Scotland’s ‘Bardocracy’ 1. Explosive Memory: Burns Enters the Twentieth Century (1914–1919) 2. Renaissance, Iconoclasm and Burnsian Reformation (1920–1930) 3. Relic or Messiah? (1930–1940)4. ‘See Yonder Poor’: The Bard of Welfare (1941–1948) 5. Into the Cold War: Checkpoint Rabbie (1948–1959)6. Indigenous Dreams and Kailyard Politics: Burns After Empire (1960–1979) 7. The Bardic Politics of Scottish Devolution (1979–1999) 8. Rabbie for Yes? (2000–2014) Epilogue: A Poetic Constitution Bibliography Index