University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pages: 208
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-61147-648-4 • Hardback • March 2014 • $87.00 • (£67.00)
978-1-61147-649-1 • eBook • March 2014 • $82.50 • (£63.00)
Ellen Rees is associate professor at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Ibsen Studies.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Seter as a Transgressive Allegorical Home
2. Cabin, Class, and Nation3. The Hunter’s Cabin as Anti-Modern Retreat
4. The Golden Age of Cabin Therapy
5. The Post-Cabin in Late Modernity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
With Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature, Ellen Rees offers a substantial addition to this developing area of inquiry. She has written a book that not only deals with a highly interesting place in Norwegian culture, but which is also accessible. Ree's book is structured in a synchronic and pedagogical way with ample recapitulation and comparison, guiding the reader through the history of the cabin. Accompanying Rees to the cabins of Norwegian literature is to embark on a journey that is inspiring and pleasurable alike.
— Scandinavian Studies
If place by definition is a 'meaningful location,' then Ellen Rees's investigation of the Norwegian cabin is an exemplary demonstration of how such meaning is produced. Tracing the literary and cultural history of this very Norwegian phenomenon from the eighteenth century up to the present, she uncovers the many layers of meaning attached to the cabin and manages to open up a rich array of significant cultural practices and discourses by way of this easily overlooked and pretty small piece of architecture. The ideas are many and well put throughout the book, but first of all it is this close inspection of a particular place of literature and of real life that distinguishes the book and gives it its proper place within the growing field of spatial humanities or place studies.
— Dan Ringgaard, associate professor of Scandinavian literature, Aarhus University, Denmark