Gender and the nation in the work of Robert Burns and Janet Little. From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: Davis, Leith | COPYRIGHT 1998 Rice University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The challenges to the idea of the nation posed by the poetry of Robert Burns and Janet Little are analyzed. It is argued that Burns reinforces the position of women as external to the nation while using the image of woman to unravel the holistic nation. On the other hand, Little's works depict the dependence of the ideology of nation on the construction of a gendered society and challenge the marginal position of women in society.

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