Bella Caledonia : woman, nation, text / / Kirsten Stirling.

• Superior document: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; 11
• Author: Stirling, Kirsten.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (137 p.)
• Notes: Originally 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.'

Bella 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 i...