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How the Victorians Monumentalized Robert Burns
Robert Burns Lives! (2017)
  • Patrick Scott, University of South Carolina - Columbia
Abstract
An extended review of Christopher Whatley's Immortal Memory: Burns and the Scottish People (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2016), recounting the ways Burns was memorialized and celebrated in Victorian Scotland, the process through which different communities proposed and erected Burns statues or other monuments, and the differing social and political movements of which the statues are the material embodiment.

Keywords
  • Scottish poetry,
  • Robert Burns,
  • Burns & materiality,
  • Burns statues,
  • Victorian Burns celebrations
Publication Date
April 13, 2017
Citation Information
Patrick Scott. "How the Victorians Monumentalized Robert Burns" Robert Burns Lives! Iss. 253 (2017)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/331/