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Book SynopsisThe messy and multi-layered issue of intimacy in connection with transnationality and spatiality is the topic of this volume on women’s writing in the long nineteenth century. A series of intimacies are dealt with through case studies from a wide range of countries situated on the European fringes. Within the field of feminist literary studies, the volume thus differs from other publications with a narrower scope, such as Western Europe or specific regions. More broadly, the chapters in this volume offer a variety of approaches to intimacy and generous bibliographical references for researchers in humanities and cultural studies.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Biographical Notes on the Authors Introduction Birgitta Lindh Estelle, Viola Parente-Čapková, Carmen Beatrice Duţu Part 1 Intimacies in Transnational Women’s Writing 1 Women, Writing, and the Cultural Politics of Intimacy in Modern Romania Carmen Beatrice Duţu 2 Freedom as a “Promised Land” Marie Linder’s En qvinna af vår tid Arja Rosenholm, Kati Launis, Viola Parente-Čapková, Natalia Mihailova 3 Stifling Intimacies Middle-Class Marriage in the Short Stories of Four Central European Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Katja Mihurko Poniž Part 2 Intimacies in Fictive European Spaces at the Fin-de-Siècle 4 Melodramatic Spaces Intimacy and Emancipation in Swedish Women’s Playwriting Birgitta Lindh Estelle 5 Feminism, Intimacy and Darwinian Time The New Women of Elin Wägner Cecilia Annell 6 Failing Intimacy in Saimi Öhrlund’s 1910s’ Novels Elsi Hyttinen 7 Intimacy and Spatiality in Three Novels by Regina di Luanto Ulla Åkerström 8 Intimate Spaces and Sexual Violence in Two Novels by Carmen de Burgos Elena Lindholm Part 3 Intimate Authorship in Space and Time 9 A Collective Sense of Intimacy Carmen Sylva’s Postures Roxana Patraș and Lucreţia Pascariu 10 Discovering Intimacy in Impressionist Poetry The Voice of Slovene Vida Jeraj Alenka Jensterle Doležal 11 Intimacy and Influence between Women Authors The Case of Isabelle de Charrière Suzan van Dijk, collaborating with Josephine Rombouts Index
