Transforming Author Museums

Ulrike Spring is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oslo and during this book project was also Visiting Professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Key publications include Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und Arktische Diskurse 1874 (co-author 2015) and Nordic Travels (co-editor 2021).

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: The Expanded Spaces and Changing Contexts of  Author Museums

Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke



Part I: Expansion



Chapter 1. New Architecture in Author Museums and Centres

Elin Haugdal



Chapter 2. A Displaced Apartment of a Poet in a Museum: Staging and Reception of Franz Grillparzer in the Wien Museum

Eva-Maria Orosz



Chapter 3. From Cobwebs to a Web-Based Reality: Drawing Young Adults into a Memorial House

Anna Benedek



Chapter 4. Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum

Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski



Chapter 5. Unpacking the Book Collection: Following a Guide, a Curator and a Librarian in an Author Museum

Thea Aarbakke



Chapter 6. The Gunnar Ekelöf Room and the Poet’s Widow as Archivist and Author

Helena Bodin



Chapter 7. This Is Not a Set of Guidelines – or How (Not) to Exhibit Literature

Vanessa Zeissig



Part II: Politics



Chapter 8. New Sites of Worship: Sovietization and Literary Museums in Western Borderlands, 1940–79

Anastasia Felcher



Chapter 9. Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author Museums

Emily Graf



Chapter 10. South African Literature, Author Museums and Narrative Expansion: The Olive Schreiner House

Dana Ryan Lande



Chapter 11. Troublesome Heritage in the Home of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Marianne Egeland



Chapter 12. Housing World Literature: The Norwegian Ibsen Museums

Narve Fulsås



Epilogue: Author Museums and Democratization

Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke



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