In:Nordic Literature: A comparative history: Volume II: Figural nodes
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Nathaniel Kramer, Christopher Oscarson, Linda Haverty Rugg and Karin Sanders
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages 38] 2026
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Sex in Nordic literature 1870–2000
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Article outline
- Neo-Romanticism and decadence
- From censorship to sexual freedom
- Writing her sex
Notes Works cited
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