Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)

From: The Eighteenth Century | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: McGuirk, Carol | Copyright information

... it is the "inter"-the cutting edge of translation and negotiation, the inbetween space-that carries the burden of the meaning of culture.

-Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture1

I. PORTABLE CULTURE

[T]he Scotish Muses were all Jacobites. I have paid more attention to every description of Scots songs than perhaps any body living has done, and I do not recollect one single stanza, or even the title of the most trifling Scots air, which has the least panegyrical refere...

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