Questioning Scotland: Literature, Nationalism, Postmodernism

by Eleanor Bell

Questioning Scotland considers the ways in which Scottish Literature has often been discussed in parochial, essentialist terms. It suggests that Scottish literary studies must now expand its conceptual boundaries in order to account for changes taking place at wider European and global levels. It is literary-based but also scrutinizes the methodological construction process of national traditions. Drawing on wider theories of postmodernism, (post)nationalism and globalism, it will help map the changing nature of national studies and Scottish studies in particular.

205 pages, Hardcover

First published September 21, 2004

About the author

Dr. Eleanor Bell is Senior Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She joined the Faculty in 2001 as Leverhulme Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Scottish and Irish Literature. She has been a full-time lecturer in the School since 2004 and Senior Lecturer since 2012.

Bell's general research interests are in twentieth-century Scottish literature, theories of the nation, literary criticism and cultural studies. She is author of Questioning Scotland: Literature, Nationalism, Postmodernism (2004), and has co-edited two books on the Scottish 1960s.

She is a member of The Association for Scottish Literature.