History of Norwegian Literature Book

	General Editor's Preface
	Preface
	Introduction
	Map of Norway
1	Old Norwegian Literature
	Older Runes and Germanic Tradition	1
	The Viking Age 800-1066	7
	The Early Middle Ages 1030-1150	20
	The High Middle Ages 1150-1370	27
2	Oral Tradition, Humanism, and the Baroque
	The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Oral Tradition	39
	The Sixteenth Century: Reformation and Humanism	43
	The Seventeenth Century: Development of Vernacular Poetry	48
3	Holberg and the Age of Enlightenment
	Eighteenth-Century Norway	53
	Ludvig Holberg	57
	From Holberg to Tullin	71
	Det Norske Selskab	76
4	Norwegian Literature 1800-1860
	The Eidsvoll Generation	82
	The Cultural Debate of the 1830s	83
	Johan Sebastian Welhaven	86
	Henrik Arnold Wergeland	88
	The National Breakthrough	95
	Aasen and Vinje and the Development of Nynorsk	99
	Beginnings of the Norwegian Novel: Hansen and Collett	102
5	Norwegian Literature 1860-1910
	A Profile of the Age 1860-1910	107
	Henrik Ibsen	113
	Bjornstjerne Bjornson	130
	Realism and Naturalism	140
	From the Eighties to the New Century	161
	Knut Hamsun	184
	Hans Kinck	194
6	Norwegian Literature 1910-1950
	The Historical and Social Context	200
	Prose Writers of the Early Twentieth Century	203
	The Epic Novelists: Undset, Duun, Uppdal, Falkberget	210
	In Search of Norway's Soul	226
	Two Modern Masters: Vesaas and Sandel	237
	Three Public Poets: Wildenvey, Bull, Overland	242
	Nordahl Grieg and Other Socialist Writers	249
	The Radical Freudians: Hoel and Krog	253
	Christian Psychological Novelists: Fangen and Christiansen	258
	City and Wilderness	261
	Confronting the Beast Within: Aksel Sandemose	263
	Other Poets with Roots in the National	266
	Four Modernist Poets: Reiss-Andersen, Boyson, Gill, Jacobsen	269
7	Norwegian Literature since 1950
	Prose Fiction 1950-1965	278
	Lyric Poetry 1950-1965	295
	The Profil Rebels and Their Contemporaries	306
	Norwegian Drama in the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties	324
	The 1980s: Toward Postmodernism	329
	Literal Criticism and Scholarship	332
8	Norwegian Children's Literature
	Early History	335
	The Golden Age 1890-1914	338
	Between the Wars	341
	After World War II	342
	The 1970s and 1980s	345
9	Norwegian Women Writers
	Norwegian Women Writers	349
	Bibliography	373
	The Contributors	391
	Index	393