LEADER 03961nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910782985303321 005 20230721005236.0 010 $a94-012-0666-X 010 $a1-4416-0353-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401206662 035 $a(CKB)1000000000721570 035 $a(EBL)556358 035 $a(OCoLC)316862420 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000412661 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12191343 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412661 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10368155 035 $a(PQKB)11535670 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556358 035 $a(OCoLC)316862420$z(OCoLC)649903227$z(OCoLC)714567188$z(OCoLC)764535930$z(OCoLC)847055553 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401206662 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556358 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380196 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000721570 100 $a20090209d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBella Caledonia$b[electronic resource] $ewoman, nation, text /$fKirsten Stirling 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York, NY $cRodopi$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (137 p.) 225 1 $aScottish cultural review of language and literature ;$v11 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Glasgow, 2001 under the title 'The image of the nation as a woman in twentieth century Scottish literature.' 311 $a90-420-2510-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 127-134) and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Engendering the Nation -- Woman as Nation -- The Female Figure in the Scottish Renaissance -- The Female Nation as Victim -- The Monstrous Muse -- Women Writing Nation -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aBella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text looks at the widespread tradition of using a female figure to represent the nation, focusing on twentieth-century Scottish literature. The woman-as-nation figure emerged in Scotland in the twentieth century, but as a literary figure rather than an institutional icon like Britannia or France?s Marianne. Scottish writers make use of familiar aspects of the trope such as the protective mother nation and the woman as fertile land, which are obviously problematic from a feminist perspective. But darker implications, buried in the long history of the figure, rise to the surface in Scotland, such as woman/nation as victim, and woman/nation as deformed or monstrous. As a result of Scotland?s unusual status as a nation within the larger entity of Great Britain, the literary figures under consideration here are never simply incarnations of a confident and complete nation nurturing her warrior sons. Rather, they reflect a more modern anxiety about the concept of the nation, and embody a troubled and divided national identity. Kirsten Stirling traces the development of the twentieth-century Scotland-as-woman figure through readings of poetry and fiction by male and female writers including Hugh MacDiarmid, Naomi Mitchison, Neil Gunn, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Willa Muir, Alasdair Gray, A.L. Kennedy, Ellen Galford and Janice Galloway. 410 0$aScottish cultural review of language and literature ;$v11. 606 $aScottish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature$y20th century 606 $aWomen authors, Scottish 606 $aNationalism in literature 607 $aScotland$xSymbolic representation 607 $aScotland$xIn literature 615 0$aScottish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature 615 0$aWomen authors, Scottish. 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 676 $a820.994110904 700 $aStirling$b Kirsten$0923277 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782985303321 996 $aBella Caledonia$93702856 997 $aUNINA