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This book provides the first extensive critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns (1759–1796) and the USA, c.1786–1866. Though Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland’s “National Poet”, his works were frequently reprinted in New York and Philadelphia; verse mimicked by an emerging canon of American poets; and songs appropriated by both abolitionists and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War era. Adopting a transnational, Atlantic Studies perspective that shifts emphasis from Burns as “national poet” to transnational icon, the following chapters chart the reception, dissemination and cultural memory of Burns and his works in the USA up to 1866.
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Sood, A. (2018). Introduction. In: Robert Burns and the United States of America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94445-6_1
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