Gerard Carruthers
Biographic Data
| ID | 2229439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerard Carruthers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerard |
| FAMILY NAME | Carruthers |
| SIGNATURE | CARRUTHERS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7188-9797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Scottish Food Patriotism and the Literary Antecedents of Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’
This article re-evaluates Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’—arguably, the most globally recited food poem in world literature—by situating it within a long-overlooked tradition of Scottish food patriotism. Drawing on literary antecedents from John Barbour and William Dunbar to William Drummond of Hawthornden, Allan Ramsay, Tobias Smollett, and Robert Fergusson, the authors show how Burns’s mock-heroic celebration of haggis synthesizes centuries of Sco…
A Companion to Scottish Literature
The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns
The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland’s national bard. Robert Burns (1759–96) was a producer of lyrical verse and satirical poetry in English and Scots; a songwriter and song collector; and a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books, and correspondence. Burns sculpted his own image, his untutored rusticity as much a sincere persona as it was not entirely accurate. He was an antiq…
Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns
The Nation in British Literature and Culture
The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the…
Paul Bishop and Robert Burns
Attention is drawn in this brief note to how Paul Bishop’s interests as an earth scientist and physical geographer inspired the author in interpreting the poetry of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns. James Hutton’s geological theories regarding the age of the earth, the historical instability of the earth’s surface and the erosive powers of the elements likely influenced Burns, suggesting new inflections to the interpretation of at least two…
Literature and Union
This volume opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work—both in the Scottish context and more broadly—on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. This volume introduces the insights of the new British history into mainstream Scottish literary scholarship. The contributors, who are from all shades of the politi…
The Oxford Edition of The Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 2: The Scots Musical Museum, Part One: Introduction and Text
The Oxford Edition of The Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 3: The Scots Musical Museum, Part Two: Notes and Appendices
Once and Future Kingdoms
The first half of this chapter considers responses to kingdoms lost (whether to union or partition) in texts from Scott and Mickiewicz. Redgauntlet as Byronic Hero leads into Konrad Wallenrod , and the latter on to Mickiewicz’s responses (mythmaking, satiric, elegiac, and idyllic) to the failure of the Polish Insurrection of 1830–1. The second half considers, in texts from Ivanhoe to Kipling and Buchan, a myth of English history as organic assimi…
A History of British Working Class Literature
A History of British Working-Class Literature examines the rich contributions of working-class writers in Great Britain from 1700 to the present. Since the early eighteenth century the phenomenon of working-class writing has been recognised, but almost invariably co-opted in some ultimately distorting manner, whether as examples of 'natural genius'; a Victorian self-improvement ethic; or as an aspect of the heroic workers of nineteenth- and twent…
British Literature and Print Culture
Fictive Pasts and Past Fictions
The Phanaticks
Archibald Pitcairn. The Phanaticks. Ed. John MacQueen. The Scottish Text Society Fifth Series 10. Woodbridge: Scottish Text Society, 2012. lxxxii + 248 pp. $60. ISBN: 978–1–89797–635–7. - Volume 66 Issue 3
English Romanticism and the Celtic World
Walter Scott
Generally accepted as a humorous look at Scott's own collections at Abbotsford
Mary Ellen BROWN, William Motherwell's Cultural Politics
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Mary Ellen BROWN, William Motherwell's Cultural Politics
Walter Scott
Generally accepted as a humorous look at Scott's own collections at Abbotsford
English Romanticism and the Celtic World
British Literature and Print Culture
Fictive Pasts and Past Fictions
The Phanaticks
Archibald Pitcairn. The Phanaticks. Ed. John MacQueen. The Scottish Text Society Fifth Series 10. Woodbridge: Scottish Text Society, 2012. lxxxii + 248 pp. $60. ISBN: 978–1–89797–635–7. - Volume 66 Issue 3
A History of British Working Class Literature
A History of British Working-Class Literature examines the rich contributions of working-class writers in Great Britain from 1700 to the present. Since the early eighteenth century the phenomenon of working-class writing has been recognised, but almost invariably co-opted in some ultimately distorting manner, whether as examples of 'natural genius'; a Victorian self-improvement ethic; or as an aspect of the heroic workers of nineteenth- and twent…
Literature and Union
This volume opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work—both in the Scottish context and more broadly—on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. This volume introduces the insights of the new British history into mainstream Scottish literary scholarship. The contributors, who are from all shades of the politi…
The Oxford Edition of The Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 2: The Scots Musical Museum, Part One: Introduction and Text
The Oxford Edition of The Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 3: The Scots Musical Museum, Part Two: Notes and Appendices
Once and Future Kingdoms
The first half of this chapter considers responses to kingdoms lost (whether to union or partition) in texts from Scott and Mickiewicz. Redgauntlet as Byronic Hero leads into Konrad Wallenrod , and the latter on to Mickiewicz’s responses (mythmaking, satiric, elegiac, and idyllic) to the failure of the Polish Insurrection of 1830–1. The second half considers, in texts from Ivanhoe to Kipling and Buchan, a myth of English history as organic assimi…
The Nation in British Literature and Culture
The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the…
Paul Bishop and Robert Burns
Attention is drawn in this brief note to how Paul Bishop’s interests as an earth scientist and physical geographer inspired the author in interpreting the poetry of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns. James Hutton’s geological theories regarding the age of the earth, the historical instability of the earth’s surface and the erosive powers of the elements likely influenced Burns, suggesting new inflections to the interpretation of at least two…
A Companion to Scottish Literature
The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns
The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland’s national bard. Robert Burns (1759–96) was a producer of lyrical verse and satirical poetry in English and Scots; a songwriter and song collector; and a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books, and correspondence. Burns sculpted his own image, his untutored rusticity as much a sincere persona as it was not entirely accurate. He was an antiq…
Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns
Scottish Food Patriotism and the Literary Antecedents of Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’
This article re-evaluates Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’—arguably, the most globally recited food poem in world literature—by situating it within a long-overlooked tradition of Scottish food patriotism. Drawing on literary antecedents from John Barbour and William Dunbar to William Drummond of Hawthornden, Allan Ramsay, Tobias Smollett, and Robert Fergusson, the authors show how Burns’s mock-heroic celebration of haggis synthesizes centuries of Sco…
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