Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture

Sharon Alker is Associate Professor of English at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. Leith Davis is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Holly Faith Nelson is Professor and Chair of English and Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia.

'This splendid collection establishes the tremendous historical impact that Burns has had on transatlantic literature and demonstrates the vibrant role he continues to play in our culture. Raising important questions about how Burns has been read, reinterpreted, and reinvented across the centuries and across media, as well as across the Atlantic ocean, this volume will be of interest not only to anyone working in Scottish literary studies, but also to scholars of Canadian and American literary history and print culture.' Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba, Canada 'Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture offers a convincing and thorough exploration of Burns as a transatlantic figure, providing new directions for further research that should prove quite productive for Burns studies.' Scottish Literary Review

• 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