IMMORTAL MEMORY BURNS AND THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE
Written by Christopher A. Whatley
Published by John Donald
in 2016
ISBN: 9781910900086
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- SCOTLAND
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IMMORTAL MEMORY BURNS AND THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE
Written by Christopher A. Whatley.
Stock no. 1608908
2016.
Softcover.
Nearly fine condition.
Card wraps. ISBN: 9781910900086. SIGNED by author on title page (without dedication). This copy would make a wonderful gift.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: dimensions of immortal memory
- 1 'From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs': Burns, 'The Cotters' Saturday Night', and Scotland's Tories in the age of revolutions
- 2 'The man who first taught the Scottish people to stand erect': Burns, Chartism and the working classes
- 3 'Rattling the Presbyterians' cage': The Burns centenary of 1859 and the struggle for the soul of Scotland
- 4 'A structure worthy of the Bard, of Glasgow and of Scotland': Burns, the Burns clubs and the making of immortal memories
- 5 'Now's the time and now's the hour': Keeping the lid on the Burns genie
- 6 'Burns by an Englishman is impossible': Burns, Scotland and socialism
- 7 'King of sentimental doggerel': Twentieth-century Burns, and Burns Now
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index