Revising Robert Burns and Ulster

Download or read book Revising Robert Burns and Ulster written by Frank Ferguson and published by Four Courts Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a broad-ranging series of essays this book, published in the 250th anniversary year of his birth, offers a timely opportunity to re-examine the relationships between Robert Burns and writers of literature in the north of Ireland. Contents: Andrew R. Holmes (QUB), Presbyterian religion, poetry, and politics in Ulster, 1770-1850; Frank Ferguson (UU), 'Burns the Conservative': revising the Lowland Scottish tradition in Ulster poetry; Carol Baraniuk (U Glasgow), The independence of the Ulster-Scots poetic tradition; Jennifer Orr (U Glasgow), Samuel Thomson and the poetics of Ulster Scots identity; John Erskine (Stranmillis College), Robert Burns and Ulster, 1786-c. 1830; Frank Ferguson, John Erskine & Roger Dixon, Collecting Burns in the north of Ireland, 1844-1902; Norman Vance (U Sussex), Northern fiction after Carleton; Colin Walker (QUB), Presbyterianism in Irish fiction, 1780-1920.