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Nordic Women's Writing and Religious Faith: Female Agency From the 16th Century to the Early 20th Century

Nordic Women's Writing and Religious Faith: Female Agency From the 16th Century to the Early 20th Century

Bohlin, Anna
Eggertsdóttir, Margrét

Hardcover

Series: Historical Women's Writing

Literary CriticismWriting Instruction

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 26, 2026

ISBN10: 1041429053
ISBN13: 9781041429050
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 26 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores how Nordic women writers had one thing in common for more than 400 years: they had to relate to a Lutheran state church. This cross-disciplinary anthology brings together 13 studies on Nordic women's writing, examined through the lens of religion. Whereas the Lutheran state churches restricted women's agency, they simultaneously provided platforms for women's voices during the period covered in the anthology: from the Protestant Reformation around 1550 until around 1920. A wide range of material is investigated--from a prayer book owned by a noblewoman during the Reformation in Denmark to transcriptions of spiritualist séances held in the early twentieth century by the Norwegian women's rights activist Ragna Nielsen; from Icelandic poetry on female martyr saints to Finnish late-nineteenth-century feminist magazines; from unpublished poems written in a leprosy hospital in Iceland by the unknown Kristín Guðmundsdóttir to novels written by the world-famous Swedish author Fredrika Bremer. The focus is on Lutheran Christianity, but the anthology unearths an undercurrent of Catholic, Marian devotion running through the centuries. As the twentieth century drew near, the religious landscape was diversified--the revivalist movements are highlighted in Norwegian hymns and Finnish novels, while the Swedish-Jewish Sophie Elkan's short stories are related to Rabbinic storytelling.

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