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A History of Danish Literature A History of Danish Literature Edited by Sven H. Rossel Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London, in cooperation with The American- Scandinavian Foundation Contents Preface /ix Acknowledgments /xi Maps /xii Introduction /xv 1. The Middle Ages David W. Colbert Antiquity: Until noo /i Christianization and the Latin Middle Ages: 1100-1300 /5 The Vernacular Middle Ages: 1300-1530 /2.0 The Medieval Ballad 146 2. From the Reformation to the Baroque F. J. BilleskovJarisen The Lutheran Reformation /71 The Philosophy of Nature and the Study of History /80 Literature in Latin and Danish /8 5 Renaissance and Humanism /91 Absolute Monarchy and the Sciences /ioo Poets of the Baroque /108 3. The Age of Enlightenment P.M.Mitchell Secularism Challenges Theology /12.1 The Primordial Imagination /115 The Predominance of Ludvig Holberg /126 The Rise of Belles Lettres /i 3 8 The Vernacular versus Foreign Models /142 Literary Sociability /148 Rediscovering the Indigenous Past /15 2. Currents of Social Change /i 5 8 A Century in Retrospect /164 4. From Romanticism to Realism Sven H. Rossel Rebellion and Innovation /167 The Theory of Romanticism /168 Universal Romanticism and Philosophical Dualism /172. National Romanticism /186 Poetic Realism; or, The Biedermeier Idyll /199 Romantisme and the Crisis of the Golden Age /209 The Breakdown of the Biedermeier Culture /217 Involvement and Timelessness: Three Mid-century Giants /228 Psychology and Reality 5. The Modern Breakthrough Niels Ingwersen Realism and Naturalism /261 The Women of the Modern Breakthrough The Crisis of the Modern Breakthrough The Fin de Siecle /z86 The Early Years of the New Century ("Johannes V. Jensen" by Niels Ingwersen and Sven H. Rossel) 13 01 The Rural Rebellion /311 The New Female Voice /•} 16 6. Between the World Wars Sven H. Rossel and Niels Ingwersen Denmark and World War I (Rossel) 1'319 Chaos and Disillusionment (Rossel) I3 22 The Struggle for an Ideology (Rossel) A? 3 3 A Lyrical Manifestation (Rossel) 7343 From Psychological Drama to Political Manifestation (Rossel) 13 51 The 1930s: A Decade of Hardship (Ingwersen) !•>, 62 Critical Realism (Ingwersen) I?, 66 Psychological Realism (Ingwersen) /370 The Inclination toward Fantasy (Ingwersen; "Karen Blixen" by Susan Brantly) l^jj, Satirical Realism (Ingwersen) 1'378 Beyond the Social Perspective (Ingwersen) 1$ 8 3 7. Danish Literature, 1940—1990 PoulHoue The 1940s: War and Postwar—Late Symbolism and Existentialist Humanism /3 8 7 The 1950s: Years of Material, Social, and Cultural Transition The 1960s: Modernism and New Realism ^44 The 1970s: Politicization and Social Experimentation /511 The 1980s: Postmodernism—And So What? 8. Faroese Literature W. Glyn Jones The Preliterary Period: 800-1850 (by PatriciaL. Conroy) ^45 Modern Faroese Literature: The Beginnings Faroese Literature Comes of Age /55 s Into the Modern Age /570 Contemporary Literature 9. Danish and Faroese Women Writers Faith Ingwersen The Oral Traditions /58 s Reformation and the Learned Women /591 Reason and Sentiment 7593 Romanticism ^94 Realism with a Difference /598 The Twentieth Century /600 Toward a New Consciousness /602 The Faroes /605 10. Children's Literature Flemming Mouritsen r\ Eighteenth-Century Moral and Didactic Literature /609 The Nineteenth-Century Fairy-Tale Boom /611 Biedermeier and National Romanticism /614 Schoolteacher's Literature and Character Formation: 1900-1930 /616 The Children's Book of the Cultural Left: 1930-1960 /620 The Postwar Period and Prosperity of the 19 50s and 1960s From Social Criticism to a Wave of Fantasy: 1970-1990 /6z8 Bibliography /633 The Contributors Index.
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