Redrawing Europe's Literary Map - (Women Writers in History) (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Who is your favourite woman writer from the 1800s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 1880s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Redrawing Europe's Literary Map sets out to uncover which female authors reached historical readers ca 1850-1920, based on the analysis of libraries and book collections, serializations in periodicals, literary reviewing, advertisements and translations. This data-rich approach shapes the comparative methodology and overall relational framework adopted in the volume. Its unusual perspective, centring the literary scenes of Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Spain, provides unique insights into the transnational connectedness of the European literary system around 1900.

About the Author

Henriette Partzsch is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research centres on women and nineteenth-century literary culture with a focus on Spain and the transnational circulation of texts, especially through periodicals.

Viola Parente-Čapková is Professor of Finnish Literature at the University of Turku, Finland and Adjunct Professor at Charles University, Czech Republic. She has published extensively on women's writing, cultural transfer and reception, with a special focus on the turn of the nineteenth and the twentieth century.