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This anthology showcases the scope of current research by early-career scholars in Scandinavian Studies. The essays explore how the North has been imagined and mediated as 'home' in literature, historiography, language and the arts.

Life in a grand Norwegian mountain hotel is not what it used to be. Sedd's grandparents are fighting a losing battle to maintain standards at Favnesheim hotel, whilst the young Sedd observes developments with a keen eye for the absurd and a growing sense of unease that all is not well.

With high hopes, Captain Riber embarks with his young bride Aurora on a voyage to exotic destinations. But they are an ill-matched pair; her naive illusions are shattered by the realities of married life, whilst his hopes of domestic bliss are frustrated by his wife's unhappiness.

What happens to an individual who is rejected by society? What does war do to us and to our outlook on the world? Selma Lagerloef struggled with these issues throughout World War I and produced a thought-provoking tale of love, death and survival that grapples with moral dilemmas as relevant today as they were a century ago.

This volume contains Brogger's autobiographical meditation "A Fighting Pig's Too Tough to Eat", and a selection of essays from the past twenty years, showing her development from social rebel to iconoclast and visionary.

This is the last novel by Estonia's greatest twentieth-century writer, Anton Tammsaare, and it constitutes a fitting summation of the themes that occupied him throughout his writing: the search for truth and social justice, and the struggle against corruption and greed.

Powderhouse is a novel which is set in an asylum for the criminally insane, where the narrator functions as a kind of porter, observing and commenting on the foibles of inmates and keepers alike

In an intricate study of relationships in which marriage is the only respectable career for a woman. Sophie, the youngest of four daughters of a cynical and disappointed mother, struggles against society's precepts and her own conditioning to be allowed to make an independent choice.

This volume presents a range of new perspectives on the Nordic region, as well as its myriad of influences on its surroundings. The fifteen chapters in this publication showcase some of the best research being conducted by emerging researchers in Britain on Nordic topics.

This volume opens up gendered perspectives on a broad range of 20th-century Scandinavian culture. The book consists of an introduction that theorizes gender and power, and sixteen chapters which explore aspects of gender within a spectrum of disciplines

A pioneering journalist, author and dramatist, Herman Bang (1857-1912) was a key figure in Scandinavia's Modern Breakthrough. Dorrit Willumsen re-works Bang's life story in a series of compelling flashbacks that unfold during his last fateful train ride across the USA.

Swedish feminist, suffragist, pacifist, and environmentalist, Elin Wagner was the author of a prodigious amount of journalism, political pamphlets, and prose fiction as well as an acclaimed biography of Selma Lagerloef.

The twenty-six stories included in this volume are taut, economical in structure, precisely observed and laced with irony.

Set at the end of last century, The Sharks is a thrilling tale of mutiny and shipwreck, which bears comparison with Melville's Moby Dick or Conrad's Typhoon in its suspense and its evocation of the fascination of the sea.

The book Marbacka, the first part of a trilogy written in 1922-32, can be read as many different things: memoir, fictionalised autobiography, even part of Lagerlof's myth-making about her own successful career as an author.

Written in 1899, Selma Lagerlof's novella A Manor House Tale is at one and the same time a complex psychological novel and a folk tale, a love story and a Gothic melodrama. It crosses genre boundaries and locates itself in a borderland between reality and fantasy, madness and sanity, darkness and light, possession and loss, life and death.

The curse on the Lowenskold family comes to fruition in unexpected ways in this final volume of the Lowenskold cycle with Anna Svard, the eponymous protagonist, taking full and impressive control of her own life and destiny

Edith Sodergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many languages, and several times into English. Written for the most part when she was dying of tuberculosis in a remote Finnish frontier village only a short train journey away from revolutionary Petrograd, they are a major contribution to European modernism.

Kerstin Ekman is primarily known as a novelist, but she has occasionally turned to free verse, especially when the subject is autobiographical. As an interview with Swedish TV 1 in 1993-1994, Kerstin Ekman read aloud "Childhood". With original photographs kindly provided by the author.

Two British environmental activists are discovered dead amongst the whale corpses after a whale-kill in Torshavn. The detective Hannis Martinsson is asked to investigate by a representative of the organisation Guardians of the Sea - who shortly afterwards is killed when his private plane crashes.

The Nordic Research Network (NRN) began as a forum for UK- based early career researchers. The papers, organized into thematic chapters, reflect and showcase the diversity of subject areas, approaches, and methodologies of the Nordic Studies postgraduate research community. Also edited by Lousia Taylor & Essi Viitanen.

A curse rests on the Lowenskold family, as narrated in The Lowenskold Ring. Charlotte Lowenskold is the tale of the following generations, a story of psychological insight and social commentary, and of the complexities of a mother-son relationship.

This collection of essays celebrates Professor Janet Garton's outstanding contribution over four decades to research, teaching, and leadership in the field of Scandinavian Studies. Contributions from some two dozen established and emerging scholars discuss Scandinavian literature, drama, letters, and visual culture.

Barbara, originally written in Danish, was the only novel by the Faroese author Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen (1900-1938), and yet it quickly achieved international best-seller status and is still one of the best-loved twentieth century classics in Danish and Faroese literature.

This is the first major literary work from one of the progenitors of Finnish literature. In contrast to our high-tech, fast-paced lifestyle, in The Railroad, the diminutive Matti and Liisa are aging in a corner of the world in which peasant life has remained unaltered for centuries. When the iron rails reach the forests of Eastern Finland, however, that solitude and constancy are forever altered.

The People of Hemsoe (1887) will come as a surprise to most English-language readers.

Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys over a century later.