Swedish Literature Katarina Bernhardsson, Lund University

1. General Mats Jansson, Poetens blick. Ekfras i svensk lyrik, Stockholm, Symposion, 352 pp., offers a comprehensive study of ekphrasis in Swedish poetry. After a chapter on the 19th c., J. focuses on modern and late modern poets and their relation to images, both paintings, photography, and mixed media, studying at length Erik Lindegren, Folke Isaksson, Gunnar Harding, Birgitta Lillpers, and Lotta Lotass. Personligt talat. Biografiska perspektiv i humaniora, ed. Maria Sjöberg, Gothenburg, Makadam, 371 pp., collects 24 contributions on biography from different branches of the humanities. Contributions in literary studies include Christian Lenemark (21–34) on life-writing on the internet, Lisbeth Larsson (75–87) on Tora Dahl’s many autobiographical writings, and Eva Borgström (145–63) on an autobiographical novel by Lydia Wahlström. Liv, lust och litteratur. Festskrift till Lisbeth Larsson, ed. Kristina Hermansson, Christian Lenemark and Cecilia Pettersson, Gothenburg, Makadam, 355 pp., covers a wide range of subjects under the three headings of gender studies, reading and popular literature, and life-writing. Eva Haettner Aurelius, ‘Drottning Kristinas brev till Ebba Sparre — galanta brev eller kärleksbrev?’ (18–32), discusses whether the letters from Queen Christina to Ebba Sparre are to be seen as lettres galantes or love letters, showing how the queen takes up a male position as letter writer. Linda Haverty Rugg, ‘“Naturens öga”. Det ekofeministiska subjektet i Katarina Frostensons “Jungfrun skär; ljudkällan (variation)”’ (99–105), explores the possibility of analysing Frostenson’s poetry from an ecofeminist perspective, suggesting a possible connection in the Swedish ‘eko’, meaning both ‘eco’ and ‘echo’. Nina Björk, ‘Att vägra den förnuftiga världen. Om revolter i Madickenböckerna’ (182–92), highlights revolt and fights in Astrid Lindgren’s novels about Madicken. Arne Melberg, ‘Litteratur i minne’ (244–53) analyses memory and memory work in the work of Strindberg, Lagerlöf, Karl-Ove Knausgård and Beate Grimsrud. Jenny Björklund, Lesbianism in Swedish Literature. An Ambiguous Affair, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 213 pp., studies literary depictions of and discourses on lesbianism in Swedish literature over 75 years. Through three case studies, Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Annakarin Svedberg, and Louise Boije af Gennäs and Mian Lodalen, B. explores how literature both confirms and challenges socio-political discourses on lesbianism, at the same time as medicalizing and affirming feminist views on lesbianism. A special issue of TidLit, 44.3–4:5–67, ‘Ekonomi’, explores the topic of economy in relation to literature and the literary market, but also to literary scholarship and literary studies as commodity. Caroline Haux, ‘Förförelsens ekonomi. Om konsumtion i Fredrika Bremers Famillen H*** och Carl Jonas Love Almqvists Araminta May’ (17–25), examines the importance of consumption and its connection to seduction in novels by Fredrika Bremer and C. J. L. Almqvist, both thematically and with respect to the authors’ position in the growing literary market. Anders Mortensen (5–15) explores the literary value discourse through a study of Gunnar Ekelöf’s poem ‘Alkemisten’. Ann Öhrberg, Samtalets retorik. Belevade kulturer och offentlig kommunikation i svenskt 1700- tal, Höör, Symposion, 242 pp., studies 18th-c. rhetoric of conversation in the periodicals of the Swedish Literature 457 first half of the century, and in the different male-dominated learned societies and orders, both secret and more open ones, in the second half of the century. Olle Widhe, ‘“Wi hafwa stridt”. Olof Fryxells Snöfästningen och 1800-talets göticistiska barnlitteratur’, Samlaren, 134:95–116, studies an example of children’s literature for boys in relation to the cultural movement of Gothicism in early 19th c. Sweden, in order to examine the ideological meaning of the child at the time. Flanörens världsbild, ed. Elena Balzamo, Stockholm, Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien, 159 pp., collects articles on the literary figure of the flâneur, with special emphasis on Nordic literature. Alexandra Borg, ‘Vandrande texter. Knut Hamsuns Sult och Eva Adolfssons Förvandling’ (29–39), analyses the female flâneur in a novel by Eva Adolfsson in relation to Hamsun. Bure Holmbäck (74–86) discusses Hjalmar Söderberg, and Massimo Ciaravolo (93–106) the city and the flâneur as a Finland-Swedish problem in Runar Schildt, Arvid Mörne, and Erik Grotenfelt. Other studies discuss Henry Parland and Helena Westermarck. Geschichte der Edition in Skandinavien, ed. Paula Henrikson and Christian Janss, Bausteine zur Geschichte der Edition, vol. 4, Berlin, de Gruyter, 2013, 537 pp., collects chapters on publishing history from the Scandinavian countries, offering joint surveys of work on older literature, i.e. medieval texts, Old Norse texts, and ballads, as well as on the application of digital tools in text editing, and on literary societies producing critical editions of literature. The Swedish section covers publishing history in Sweden and Finland from the 17th to the 20th cs, and includes chapters on the collected works of Runeberg, Almqvist, and Strindberg. Julia Tidigs, Att skriva sig över språkgränserna. Flerspråkighet i Jac. Ahrenbergs och Elmer Diktonius prosa, Åbo U.P., 348 pp., an Åbo dissertation, studies the prose of Elmer Diktonius and the less well-known author Jac. Ahrenberg, specifically focusing on the different effects of multilingualism in their use of the Swedish language, e.g. the use of foreign words and phrases, hybrid words, deviating sytax, and orthography. Eva Fjellander, Myndighetsperson, själasörjare eller driftkucku. En studie av prästgestalter i svenska romaner 1809–2009, Skellefteå, Artos, 387 pp., an Åbo dissertation, studies the portrayal of clergymen in Swedish novels, through the study of 150 novels over two centuries, discerning three roles: as a person of authority, as spiritual guide, and as laughing stock. Daniel Möller, ‘Pompes aska och stoft. Hundgravspoesins funktioner under stormakts- och frihetstiden’, pp. 49–67 of Från renhållningshjon till modeassecoar. 10 000 år av relationer människa-hund i Sverige, Uppsala, Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi, 171 pp., discusses the subgenre of funeral poetry about dogs from the Swedish 17th and 18th c., used for entertainment and imitation of antique verses as well as for promoting careers or political views. Nya röster. Svenska kvinnotidskrifter under 150 år, ed. Anna Nordenstam, Möklinta, Gidlunds, 288 pp., is a history of women’s magazines over 150 years, stressing the magazine as forum for public opinion, identity formation, and as literary transmitter. Clas Zilliacus, ‘Världsherraväldets lokalvisor. Ultra, Quosego och andra handlingar från mod­ ern­ismens 1920-tal’, pp. ix-xxvii of Ultra och Quosego, ed. Lisen Sundqvist, Stockholm, Atlantis, 524 pp., situates the two important modernist literary magazines of the 1920s, Ultra and Quosego, in their time and genre. The edition comprises the complete magazines in facsimile, and also reprints Olof Enckell’s introduction to the 1971 facsimile edition of Quosego. Finnlands schwedische Literatur 1900–2012, ed. Michel Ekman, Münster, Kleinheinrich Vlg, 366 pp., covers in four chronological chapters the Swedish-speaking literature of Finland, together with an essay by Clas Zilliacus on the place of this literature between Finnish and Swedish. Utopin i vardagen. Sinnen, kvinnor, idéer. En vänbok till Elisabeth Mansén, ed. Jenny-Leontine Olsson et al., Lund, Ellerströms, 369 pp., collects studies on history of ideas and literature. Maria