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Ibsen in Context

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Narve Fulsås, Mads B. Claudi, Derek Miller, Julie Holledge, Toril Moi, Daniel M. Grimley, Kristin Gjesdal, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Alisa Zhulina, Kamilla Aslaksen, Henning Hansen, Maria Purtoft, Ståle Dingstad, Peter Larsen, Giuliano D'Amico, Tore Rem, Ruth Schor, Mark B. Sandberg, Erik Bjerck Hagen, Dean Krouk, Reiko Abe Auestad, Chengzhou He, Krishna Sen, Ellen Rees
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  • Date Published: April 2021
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108422208

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  • Henrik Ibsen, the 'Father of Modern Drama', came from a seemingly inauspicious background. What are the key contexts for understanding his appearance on the world stage? This collection provides thirty contributions from leading scholars in theatre studies, literary studies, book history, philosophy, music, and history, offering a rich interdisciplinary understanding of Ibsen's work, with chapters ranging across cultural and aesthetic contexts including feminism, scientific discovery, genre, publishing, music, and the visual arts. The book ends by charting Ibsen's ongoing globalization and gives valuable overviews of major trends within Ibsen studies. Accessibly written, while drawing on the most recent scholarship, Ibsen in Context provides unique access to Ibsen the man, his works, and their afterlives across the world.

    • Short essays on key topics within Ibsen Studies provide students and scholars with an easily digestible reference work
    • Offers readers access to fresh contributions to Ibsen studies, including a unique amount of material on the playwright's Scandinavian contexts and some of his most important foreign receptions
    • Takes an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions from literary scholars, historians, and philosophers
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    Awards

    • Winner, 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

    Reviews & endorsements

    'The volume is a fine complement to The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, ed. by James McFarlane, and it joins a recent spate of titles on the genius progenitor of realism on the modern stage … Highly recommended.' H. I. Einsohn, Choice Magazine

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    • Date Published: April 2021
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108422208
    • length: 400 pages
    • dimensions: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
    • weight: 0.62kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Preface
    Acknowledgements
    Note on the text
    Chronology
    Part I. Life and Career:
    1. Early years in Norway Narve Fulsås
    2. From theatre to book Narve Fulsås
    3. Bourgeois drama Narve Fulsås
    Part II. Culture and Society:
    4. Genres Mads B. Claudi
    5. Realism Derek Miller
    6. Theatre Julie Holledge
    7. Visual arts Toril Moi
    8. Music Daniel M. Grimley
    9. Philosophy Kristin Gjesdal
    10. Science Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
    11. Feminism Toril Moi
    12. Capitalism Alisa Zhulina
    Part III. Scandinavian Reception:
    13. The Ibsen book Kamilla Aslaksen
    14. Publishing and readerships Henning Hansen and Maria Purtoft
    15. Criticism Ståle Dingstad
    16. Celebrity Peter Larsen
    Part IV. Internationalization:
    17. Copyright Giuliano D'Amico
    18. Censorship Tore Rem
    19. German reception Ruth Schor
    20. British reception Tore Rem
    21. French reception Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
    22. Parodies Mark B. Sandberg
    23. Early globalization Julie Holledge
    Part V. Afterlives:
    24. Biography Ståle Dingstad
    25. Academic responses Erik Bjerck Hagen
    26. American Ibsens Dean Krouk
    27. Japanese Ibsens Reiko Abe Auestad
    28. Chinese Ibsens Chengzhou He
    29. Indian Ibsens Krishna Sen
    30. Mass media and popular reception Ellen Rees
    Further reading
    Index.

  • Editors

    Narve Fulsås, University of Tromso, Norway
    Narve Fulsås is Professor of Modern History in the Department of Archaeology, History and Religious Studies at the University of Tromsø – the Arctic University of Norway. He has published on Norwegian cultural and intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author of the introduction and notes to the critical edition of Ibsen's letters published in Henrik Ibsens skrifter (2005–2010, 4 vols.), he is also the co-author (with Tore Rem) of Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama (Cambridge, 2018).

    Tore Rem, Universitetet i Oslo
    Tore Rem is Professor of English literature and the Director of the interdisciplinary research initiative UiO: Nordic at the University of Oslo. He has published on Victorian literature, book history and the early English language appropriations of Ibsen and has been head of the board of the Centre for Ibsen Studies. He is editor of the new Penguin Classics Ibsen (2014–19, 4 vols.) and the co-author (with Narve Fulsås) of Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama (Cambridge, 2018).

    Contributors

    Narve Fulsås, Mads B. Claudi, Derek Miller, Julie Holledge, Toril Moi, Daniel M. Grimley, Kristin Gjesdal, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Alisa Zhulina, Kamilla Aslaksen, Henning Hansen, Maria Purtoft, Ståle Dingstad, Peter Larsen, Giuliano D'Amico, Tore Rem, Ruth Schor, Mark B. Sandberg, Erik Bjerck Hagen, Dean Krouk, Reiko Abe Auestad, Chengzhou He, Krishna Sen, Ellen Rees

    Awards

    • Winner, 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

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