Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama

Narve Fulsås is Professor of Modern History at the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, where his work focuses on Norwegian cultural and intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has edited Ibsen's letters for the new critical edition, Henrik Ibsens skrifter (2005-2010), and is chief editor of the journal Historisk tidsskrift. Tore Rem is Professor of British Literature at the University of Oslo. He has been head of the board of The Centre for Ibsen Studies and has published on Victorian literature, book history, and the early English-language appropriations of Ibsen. He is editor of the new Ibsen editions of the Penguin Classics series.

• Introduction; 1. From stage to page; 2. No escape; 3. Open futures; 4. Nora's exit; 5. The sphinx; 6. European breakthrough; 7. Copyright and circulation; 8. The many Ibsens; 9. The provincial world poet.

'In this exceptionally informative study, Fulsås and Rem map the remarkable ascending trajectory of Scandinavian literature in general and of Henrik Ibsen in particular that began in the pivotal year 1850 and reached its zenith in the closing decade of the nineteenth century. Recommended.' Choice