Abstract
Explores the treatment of the monarchy, and the Jacobite song tradition, in Robert Burns (who "refuses political silence yet ... embraces indirection, even contradiction") and Caroline Oliphant, Lady Nairne (whose "lyrics highlight Scottish solidarity... offering her readers [and the performers of her songs] an immersion experience in being Jacobite"), with discussion also of Jane Austen's favourite Burns song "“Their Groves of Sweet Myrtle,” suggesting that this is echoed in Austen's Emma.
Recommended Citation
McGuirk, Carol
(2020)
"The King and THE PEOPLE in Burns and Lady Nairne, with a Coda on Jane Austen’s Favorite Burns Song,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 46:
Iss.
1, 14–22.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol46/iss1/5