The Oxford Handbook of Robert Bus (Oxford Handbooks)
by: Gerard Carruthers (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2024/4/25
Language: English
Print Length: 656 pages
ISBN-10: 019884624X
ISBN-13: 9780198846246
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Robert Bus treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland’s national ‘bard’. Robert Bus (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, jouals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as it was not entirely accurate. Bus was an antiquarian, national patriot, pioneer of what today we would call ‘folk culture’, and a man of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The Handbook considers Bus’s reception in his own time and beyond, extending to his iconic status as a world-writer. Bus was important to the English Romantic poets, in the context of debates about Abolition in the US, in the Victorian era he was widely utilised as a model for different kinds of popular poetry and he has been utilised as a contestant in debates surrounding Scottish and, indeed, British politics, in peacetime and in wartime down to the present day. The writer’s afterlife includes not only a large number of biographies but a whole culture of commemoration in art, architecture, fiction, material culture, museum-exhibition and even forged manuscripts and memorabilia as well as appearances, apparently, via Spiritualist seances. The politics of his work channel the fierce debates of late eighteenth-century Scottish ecclesiastical controversy as well as the ages of American, Agrarian and French revolutions. All of this ground is traversed in this Handbook, the largest critical compendium ever assembled about Robert Bus.
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The Oxford Handbook of Robert Bus treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland’s national ‘bard’. Robert Bus (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, jouals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as it was not entirely accurate. Bus was an antiquarian, national patriot, pioneer of what today we would call ‘folk culture’, and a man of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The Handbook considers Bus’s reception in his own time and beyond, extending to his iconic status as a world-writer. Bus was important to the English Romantic poets, in the context of debates about Abolition in the US, in the Victorian era he was widely utilised as a model for different kinds of popular poetry and he has been utilised as a contestant in debates surrounding Scottish and, indeed, British politics, in peacetime and in wartime down to the present day. The writer’s afterlife includes not only a large number of biographies but a whole culture of commemoration in art, architecture, fiction, material culture, museum-exhibition and even forged manuscripts and memorabilia as well as appearances, apparently, via Spiritualist seances. The politics of his work channel the fierce debates of late eighteenth-century Scottish ecclesiastical controversy as well as the ages of American, Agrarian and French revolutions. All of this ground is traversed in this Handbook, the largest critical compendium ever assembled about Robert Bus.
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