Women Writing Intimate Spaces

Birgitta Lindh Estelle is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature with a specialisation in Theatre at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has published widely on gender and nineteenth century playwriting. Her recent publications include a monograph in Swedish on Alfhild Agrell’s, Victoria Benedictsson’s and Anne Charlotte Leffler’s late nineteenth century playwriting. She has also contributed to Swedish Women’s Writings on Export. Tracing the Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth Century (2019). Carmen Beatrice Duțu is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, Romania. She published Feminist Literary Criticism. A Comparative Perspective, 2012. Viola Parente-Čapková is a Professor of Finnish Literature at the University of Turku, Finland. She has published widely on the topic of transnational fin de siècle women’s writing in Europe. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Nordic Literature of Decadence (2020).

List of Figures


Notes on Contributors


Biographical Notes on the Authors


Introduction

  Birgitta Lindh Estelle, Viola Parente-Čapková, Carmen Beatrice Duţu



Part 1

Intimacies in Transnational Women’s Writing

1 Women, Writing, and the Cultural Politics of Intimacy in Modern Romania

  Carmen Beatrice Duţu



2 Freedom as a “Promised Land” Marie Linder’s En qvinna af vår tid

  Arja Rosenholm, Kati Launis, Viola Parente-Čapková, Natalia Mihailova



3 Stifling Intimacies Middle-Class Marriage in the Short Stories of Four Central European Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

  Katja Mihurko Poniž



Part 2

Intimacies in Fictive European Spaces at the Fin-de-Siècle

4 Melodramatic Spaces Intimacy and Emancipation in Swedish Women’s Playwriting

  Birgitta Lindh Estelle



5 Feminism, Intimacy and Darwinian Time The New Women of Elin Wägner

  Cecilia Annell



6 Failing Intimacy in Saimi Öhrlund’s 1910s’ Novels

  Elsi Hyttinen



7 Intimacy and Spatiality in Three Novels by Regina di Luanto

  Ulla Åkerström



8 Intimate Spaces and Sexual Violence in Two Novels by Carmen de Burgos

  Elena Lindholm



Part 3

Intimate Authorship in Space and Time

9 A Collective Sense of Intimacy Carmen Sylva’s Postures

  Roxana Patraș and Lucreţia Pascariu



10 Discovering Intimacy in Impressionist Poetry The Voice of Slovene Vida Jeraj

  Alenka Jensterle Doležal



11 Intimacy and Influence between Women Authors The Case of Isabelle de Charrière

  Suzan van Dijk, collaborating with Josephine Rombouts



Index