The Reception of Robert Burns in Europe

by Murray Pittock (Editor)

Overview

Robert Burns (1759 –1796), Scotland's national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement, has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven times as often as Byron, with 21 Norwegian translations alone recorded since 1990; he was translated into German before the end of his short life, and was of key importance in the vernacular politics of central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. This collection of essays by leading international scholars and translators traces the cultural impact of Burns' work across Europe and includes bibliographies of major translations of his work in each country covered, as well as a publication history and timeline of his reception on the continent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567629197
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/19/2014
Series:	The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a prizewinner of that society and of the British Academy, as well as winning or being nominated or shortlisted for over ten other literary prizes. He is the author or editor of a number of prominent works on Jacobitism and Romanticism, including Scottish and Irish Romanticism (2008, 2011), Robert Burns in Global Culture (2011) and Material Culture and Sedition: Treacherous, Objects, Secret Places (2013). He is currently editing the Scots Musical Museum in the AHRC Collected Burns edition.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface
Elinor Shaffer
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Abbreviations

Timeline of the European Reception of Robert Burns, 1795–2012
Pauline Mackay

Introduction: 'The mair they talk, I'm kend the better': Burns and Europe
Murray Pittock

German

Lost in Translation: Robert Burns in Germany
Frauke Reitemeier

German-Language Reception of Robert Burns in Austria
Eleoma Bodammer

The Reception of Robert Burns in Switzerland
Silvia Mergenthal

French

From Bard to Boor: The Critical Reception of Robert Burns in France
Dominique Delmaire

Italian

'Compar'd to these, Italian trills are tame': A Century of Robert Burns in Italy, 1869–1972
Francesca Saggini

Spanish

Robert Burns and Spanish Letters
Andrew Monnickendam

Russian

The Reception of Robert Burns in Russia
Natalia Kaloh Vid

Ukrainian

The Reception of Robert Burns in Ukrainian Culture
Hanna Dyka

Hungarian

'His voice resonated for the longest time in our literature': Burns and 'popular poetry' in Nineteenth-century Hungary
Veronika Ruttkay

Czech

Czech Translations of Burns: Constructing National Identity?
Martin Procházka

Polish

The Reception of Robert Burns in Poland
Miroslawa Modrzewska

Slovene

Robert Burns's Reception in Slovenia
Valentina Bold

Norwegian

Burns in Norwegian: A Man of Opposition
Jahn Holljen Thon

Music

The Reception of Robert Burns in Music
Kirsteen McCue and Marjorie Rycroft

Bibliography

Index