{"product_id":"beside-the-bard-1","title":"Beside the Bard","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBeside the Bard\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Scottish poetry in the age of Burns reclaims not a single past, dominated and overwritten by the unitary national language of an elite ruling class, but a past that conceptualizes the Scottish nation in terms of local self-identification, linguistic multiplicity, cultural and religious difference, and transnational political and cultural affiliations. This fluid conception of the nation may accommodate a post-Union British self-identification, but it also recognizes the instrumental and historically contingent nature of “Britishness.” Whether male or female, loyalist or radical, \u003ci\u003eliterati\u003c\/i\u003e or autodidacts, poets such as Alexander Wilson, Carolina Olyphant, Robert Tannahill, and John Lapraik, among others, adamantly refuse to imagine a single nation, British or otherwise, instead preferring an open, polyvocal field, on which they can stage new national and personal formations and fight new revolutions. In this sense, “Scotland” is a revolutionary category, always subject to creative destruction and reformation.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublished by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"George S. Christian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43574149415094,"sku":"9781684481828","price":129.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781684481828_4e83ce25-c991-4b8a-8e81-37d01e89d6fb.jpg?v=1727258840","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/beside-the-bard-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}