Gunilla Hermansson and Yvonne Leffler
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620528
- eISBN:
- 9781789623864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620528.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
The chapter centres on a comparative study of the international reception of two Swedish women writers, the Romantic poet, Julia Nyberg, and the best-selling novelist, Emilie Flygare-Carlén, using ...
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The chapter centres on a comparative study of the international reception of two Swedish women writers, the Romantic poet, Julia Nyberg, and the best-selling novelist, Emilie Flygare-Carlén, using their examples to highlight the different opportunities for disrupting the balance between small and major, and presenting gender, genre and nationality as key factors in the process of attaining an international readership for not only Swedish, but also writers from other small nations. The chapter concludes by arguing that both writers had the potential to enter the international literary mainstream, but through reception and promotion were progressively removed from the centre into an increasingly gendered context, the ladies’ room in the peripheral history of Swedish literature.Less
The chapter centres on a comparative study of the international reception of two Swedish women writers, the Romantic poet, Julia Nyberg, and the best-selling novelist, Emilie Flygare-Carlén, using their examples to highlight the different opportunities for disrupting the balance between small and major, and presenting gender, genre and nationality as key factors in the process of attaining an international readership for not only Swedish, but also writers from other small nations. The chapter concludes by arguing that both writers had the potential to enter the international literary mainstream, but through reception and promotion were progressively removed from the centre into an increasingly gendered context, the ladies’ room in the peripheral history of Swedish literature.
Maria Agren
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807833209
- eISBN:
- 9781469604589
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807898451_agren
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. This book chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing ...
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Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. This book chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights, but a more complex tale of unintended consequences. A public sphere of influence—including the wife's family and the local community—held sway over spousal property rights throughout most of the seventeenth century, the book argues. Around 1700, a campaign to codify spousal property rights as an arcanum domesticum, or domestic secret, aimed to increase efficiency in legal decision making. New regulatory changes indeed reduced familial interference, but they also made families less likely to give land to women. The advent of the print medium ushered property issues back into the public sphere, this time on a national scale, the book explains. Mass politicization increased sympathy for women, and public debate popularized more progressive ideas about the economic contributions of women to marriage, leading to mid-nineteenth-century legal reforms that were more favorable to women.Less
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. This book chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights, but a more complex tale of unintended consequences. A public sphere of influence—including the wife's family and the local community—held sway over spousal property rights throughout most of the seventeenth century, the book argues. Around 1700, a campaign to codify spousal property rights as an arcanum domesticum, or domestic secret, aimed to increase efficiency in legal decision making. New regulatory changes indeed reduced familial interference, but they also made families less likely to give land to women. The advent of the print medium ushered property issues back into the public sphere, this time on a national scale, the book explains. Mass politicization increased sympathy for women, and public debate popularized more progressive ideas about the economic contributions of women to marriage, leading to mid-nineteenth-century legal reforms that were more favorable to women.
