The biographical construction of Robert Fergusson, 1774-1900

Abstract

This article traces the biographical construction of Robert Fergusson from his death to the nineteenth-century biography by A.B. Grosart. It explores the influence of Romanticism, the Burns cult and the literature of sensibility on the construction of Fergusson's life, and explores some fictional representations of the poet

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This paper was published in Enlighten.

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