Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>The Bard of Contention: Robert Burns & Scottish Cultural Politics<br>4 Feb, free online</p><p>Robert Burns’s political legacy remains deeply contested. Paul Malgrati explores the transformations of Burns’s image throughout the late modern era, as revolutionaries, nationalists, & avant-garde writers co-opted his myth to challenge Scotland’s social & constitutional order.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/litstudies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>litstudies</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-</span><span class="invisible">scotland/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertBurns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertBurns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CulturalStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottishCulture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottishPolitics</span></a></p>