Beside the Bard Scottish Lowland poetry in the age of Burns Christian, George S. creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. pau 2020 monographic eng print 250 pages ; 24 cm. "Beside the Bard argues that Scottish poetry in the age of Burns reclaims not a single past, dominated and overwritten by the unitary national language of an elite ruling class, but a past that conceptualizes the Scottish nation in terms of local self-identification, linguistic multiplicity, cultural and religious difference, and transnational political and cultural affiliations. This fluid conception of the nation may accommodate a post-Union British self-identification, but it also recognizes the instrumental and historically contingent nature of "Britishness." Whether male or female, loyalist or radical, literati or autodidacts, poets such as Alexander Wilson, Carolina Olyphant, Robert Tannahill, and John Lapraik, among others, adamantly refuse to imagine a single nation, British or otherwise, instead preferring an open, polyvocal field, on which they can stage new national and personal formations and fight new revolutions. In this sense, "Scotland" is a revolutionary category, always subject to creative destruction and reformation"-- George S. Christian. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk-st English poetry Scottish authors History and criticism Scottish poetry 18th century History and criticism Scotland In literature English poetry Scottish authors Literature Scottish poetry Scotland 1700-1799 fast PR8567 .C48 2020 821/.09413 Transits (Bucknell University) 9781684481828 9781684481811 1684481813 1684481821 9781684481835 9781684481842 9781684481859 2019025628 pda,print DLC 190627 20250318215055.0 in00004168523 eng