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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 icon like Britannia or France's M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stirling, Kirsten
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.
Colección:Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Engendering the nation
  • Woman as nation
  • The female figure in the Scottish Renaissance
  • The female nation as victim
  • The monstrous muse
  • Women writing nation.