Birgitta Lindh Estelle

University of Gothenburg | GU · Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion

This article proposes an ethical reading position by taking the author’s socio-historic censorious situation into account and by adopting a complicit reading strategy in order to expose silenced themes of intimacy. It does so through textual references to the 1883 play Räddad (Saved) by the Swedish female playwright Alfhild Agrell. By taking the po...

The 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...

Intimacy is a tricky concept. As easy as it is to identify intimacy in various situations and in relation to people, places, and items, just as hard is the concept to define. As Pratt and Rosner remind us in The Global and The Intimate (2012), the word intimacy, originally meaning "the innermost", invokes a cluster of related ideas: privacy, famili...

The Swedish female playwrights Alfhild Agrell, Victoria Benedictsson and Anne Charlotte Leffler were contemporaries of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg and popular at theatres in the 1880s. Melodramatic elements are vital components in a dramaturgy representing the emotional and bodily experiences of the female protagonists in these women’s plays...

In Som en vildfågel i en bur [Like a wild bird in a cage. Identity, love, liberation and melodrama in Alfhild Agrell, Anne Charlotte Leffler and Victoria Benedictsson’s late- nineteenth- century playwriting] Swedish drama of the modern breakthrough is re-evaluated and represented in a new way, by illuminating how elements from a sentimental and mel...

While 19th century Sweden may have remained peripheral to world events, Swedish literature was remarkably successful – even decades before the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough. Several of the most prominent writers in Sweden were women. Using digitized materials, various methods of visualization and theoretical tools, this study reveals a new and f...

Sections of the Introduction: Conceptualising Circulation; World Literatures, Canon, and Gender; Translation and Other Reception Events; Methodological Challenges; Outline.

The aim of the article is to demonstrate and discuss a method for analyzing reviews, emphasizing the emotional reactions and personal attempts by reviewers to position themselves. Paying attention to such structures is especially important during periods of intense aesthetic and ideological struggles in the field of theatre. The documents used in t...

The aim of the article is to demonstrate and discuss a method for analyzing reviews, emphasizing the emotional reactions and personal attempts by reviewers to position themselves. Paying attention to such structures is especially important during periods of intense aesthetic and ideological struggles in the field of theatre. The documents used in t...

Birgitta Johansson: Balancing on the Edge of Indecency Melodramatic strategies in Alfhild Agrell's Raddad (Saved) and Anne Charlotte Leffler's Sanna kvinnor (True Women) In Scandinavia of the 1880's, drama and theatre developed into important arenas for debating gender issues. Women playwrights entered the theatrical stages of the Nordic capital ci...