Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics

Explores Robert Burns’s political legacy in modern and contemporary Scotland Uses Burns's lens to study radical changes in Scottish cultural politics, from Victorian unionism to contemporary nationalism.Discusses Burns's influence on Scottish unionism, conservativism, nationalism, socialism, fascism, communism, modernism, antiracism, and feminism.Analyses Burns's reception by key Scottish writers, including Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Muir, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Hamish Henderson, Edwin Morgan, and Li