Gender in Literary Exchange

Anka Ryall is Professor Emerita in the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She has published on Virginia Woolf's border crossings, travel writing and Arctic textual culture. Her latest co-edited book is The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults (Routledge, 2020). Anne Birgitte Rønning is Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. Her research includes feminist studies on Scandinavian and European literature, such as questions of gender and genre in historical novels and female Robinsonades, and cultural transfer in Enlightenment books targeted at female readers.

• IntroductionAnka Ryall and Anne Birgitte Rønning1. Gender and Vernaculars in Digital Humanities and World LiteratureJenny Bergenmar and Katarina Leppänen2. Fagerholm Goes Oprah: Minor Literature, Global Market, and Gender in Literary Exchange Kristina Malmio3. Transnational Reception: Nordic Women Writers in Fin de SieÌcle Finland Viola Parente-Čapková and Päivi Lappalainen4. Elusive Women Authors in Norwegian Nineteenth-Century Reading Societies Marie Nedregotten Sørbø5. The Soviet Reception of Selma Lagerlöf Olga Campbell-Thomson6. The Changing Images of Simone de Beauvoir in Norway Ida Hove Solberg7. Danger, You Are Entering the Garbage Vortex! Salvaging the History of Women’s Participation in European Literary CultureHenriette Partzsch