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Tam o' Shanter and Aesthetic Cultural Nationalism

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McKeever GL (2016) Tam o' Shanter and Aesthetic Cultural Nationalism. Studies in Scottish Literature, 42 (1), pp. 31-48. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol42/iss1/3/

Abstract
Drawing on recent debates about Burns and Scottish Romanticism, particularly comments by Murray Pittock, Nigel Leask, and Ian Duncan, discusses the pivotal scene in Robert Burns's poem "Tam o' Shanter," in which Tam's vision of the witches' carnival is framed by the window of Alloway Kirk, and argues that this can be read as a framing and aestheticization not only of folk heritage, but of a national self-image, a recalibration of nationhood.

Journal
Studies in Scottish Literature: Volume 42, Issue 1

StatusPublished
FundersUniversity of Glasgow
Publication date31/12/2016
Publication date online07/06/2016
Date accepted by journal07/03/2016
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/32883
Publisher URLhttps://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol42/iss1/3/
ISSN0039-3770