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Elusive Women Authors in Norwegian Nineteenth-Century Reading Societies

in: Nora
Oslo: 2017 , 279-295 S.

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Einrichtung: Ariadne | Wien
Verfasst von: Sørbø, Marie N. info
In: Nora
Jahr: 2017
Sprache: Nicht einzuordnen
Beschreibung:
Which women authors were read at the ebb of the nineteenth century and around the start of the twentieth? Research on historical readership groups reveals a strikingly different picture from the one transmitted through literary histories and textbooks. Empirical data from the catalogues of Norwegian reading societies from this period form the basis of the proposed conclusions. From a feminist, scholarly point of view, it is doubly interesting to investigate the fate of female authors among female readers; hence, the main emphasis is on the book collection of the women’s reading society based in Oslo from 1874. The collections of other societies, whether male or open to both sexes, are consulted for comparison. Although the material is Norwegian, the results turn out to be comparable to those seen in other countries, not least Finland. The data presented here serve to modify the received canon of European literary history, and to invite future revisions in the reception of female authorship and of women’s place in world literature.
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References: Seiten 294-295
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