Cover not available

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
► pp. 437–452

Home

This content is being prepared for publication; it may be subject to changes.
Article outline
  • The home as sheltering interiority
  • Given and made
  • Public and private boundaries
  • Alternative dwellings
  • The social home
  • Works cited
References (45)
Works cited
Aasen, Ivar. “Gamle Norig.” Dikting. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. 26–27.
Asplund, Gunnar et al. acceptera. Stockholm: Bokförlagsaktiebolaget Tiden, 1931.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
acceptera. Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts. Ed. Lucy Creagh, Helena Kåberg, and Barbara Miller. Trans. David Jones. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2008. 140–339.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Benjamin, Walter. “Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century.” Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings. Ed. Peter Demetz. New York: Schocken Books, 1978. 146–62.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. “Paris, die Haupstadt des XIX. Jahrhunderts.” Gesammelte Schriften. Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Vol. 1. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1982. 45–59.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne. Synnøve Solbakken. Christiania: Johan Dahl, 1857.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. Synnöve Solbakken. Trans. Rasmus B. Anderson. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1881.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Blomster, Anna Jenny Katarina. “In a Red Little Cottage: Icons of Identity and Nation in Sweden.” Ph.D. Diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2016.
Bremer, Fredrika. Hemmen i den nya verlden: En dagbok i bref, skrifna under tvenne års resor i Norra Amerika och på Cuba. 3 vols. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1853.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. The Homes of the New World; impressions of America. Trans. Mary Howitt. 3 vols. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1853.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Dass, Petter. Nordlands Trompet; Samlede verker. Vol. 1. Ed. Kjell Heggelund and Sverre Inge Apenes. 2nd edition. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1997. 11–120.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. The Trumpet of Nordland. Ed. and Trans. Theodore Jorgenson. Helgeland, Norway: Selhornet AS, 2015.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Edling, Nils. Det fosterländska hemmet: Egnahemspolitik, småbruk och hemideologi kring sekelskiftet 1900. Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 1996.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Garvey, Pauline. Unpacking IKEA: Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses. New York: Routledge, 2018.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gaski, Harald. “More than Meets the Eye: The Indigeneity of Johan Turi’s Writing and Artwork.” Scandinavian Studies 83.4 (Winter 2011): 591–608.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Geijer, Erik Gustaf. “Odalbonden.” Dikter. Svenska Klassiker. Stockholm: Atlantis, 1999. 12–15.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Halldór Laxness. Paradísarheimt. Reykjavík: Helgafell, 1960.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Halldór Laxness. Paradise Reclaimed. Trans. Magnus Magnusson. New York: Vintage International, 2002.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hamsun, Knut. Growth of the Soil. Trans. Sverre Lyngstad. London: Penguin Classics, 2007.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. Markens Grøde; Samlede verker. Vol. 7. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1992. 143–397.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hansson, Per Albin. “Folkhemmet, Medborgarhemmet.” Demokrati: Tal och uppsatser. Stockholm: Tidens Förlag, 1935. 19–32.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
von Heidenstam, Verner. “Hemmet.” Samlade verk. Vol. 6. Ed. Kate Bang and Fredrik Böök. Stockholm: Bonniers, 1944. 30–31.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hoel, Sigurd. En dag i oktober. Oslo: Gyldendals Norsk Forlag, 1931.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hjorth, Vigdis. Et norsk hus. Oslo: Cappelen Damm, 2015.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House; A Doll’s House and other Plays. Eds. Tore Rem. Trans. Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik. [London]: Penguin Classics, 2016. 105–88.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. Et dukkehjem; Henrik Ibsens skrifter. Eds. Vigdis Ystad et al. Vol. 7.1. Oslo: Aschehoug, 2008. 209–379.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. Pillars of the Community; A Doll’s House and other Plays. Ed. Tore Rem. Trans. Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik. [London]: Penguin Classics, 2016. 2–104.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. Samfunnets Støtter; Henrik Ibsens skrifter. Eds. Vigdis Ystad et al. Vol. 7.1. Oslo: Aschehoug, 2008. 7–208.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Karabetian, Päivi. Hem jävla hem. Borås, Sweden: Recito Förlag, 2010.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Larsson, Carl. Ett hem. Stockholm: Bonniers, 1899.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. Åt solsidan: En bok om boningsrum, om barn, om dig, om blommor, om allt. Stockholm: Bonniers, 1910.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Linnet, Jeppe Trolle. “Money Can’t Buy Me Hygge: Danish Middle-Class Consumption, Egalitarianism, and the Sanctity of Inner Space.” Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology 55.2 (Summer 2011): 21–44. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
McCarthy, Christine. “Toward a Definition of Interiority.” Space and Culture 8.2 (May 2005): 112–25. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Nattlandene: Om byggekunst i Norden. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1993.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. Nightlands: Nordic Building. Trans. Thomas McQuillan. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Riel, Jørgen. En fortælling hvoraf man får et smukt ansigt; Mine fædres hus. København: Steen Hasselbalchs Forlag, 1970.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Rybczynski, Witold. Home: A Short History of an Idea. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Rølvaag, Ole. Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie. Trans. Lincoln Colcord and Ole Rølvaag. New York: Harper Perrenial, 1999.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. I de dage: Fortælling om norske nykommere i Amerika. Kristiania: Aschehoug, 1924.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sandberg, Mark B. Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums, and Modernity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Snodin, Michael. “Introduction.” Carl and Karin Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style. Eds. Michael Snodin and Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1997. 1–9.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Turi, Johan. An Account of the Sámi. Ed. and Trans. Thomas A. DuBois. Chicago: Press, 2011.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. Muitalus sámiid birra. Ed. M. Svonni. Karasjok, Norway: ČálliidLágádus, 2010.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Valkeapää, Nils-Aslak. Ruoktu Váimmus. Karasjok: DAT, 1985. Unpaginated work.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. Trekways of the Wind. Trans. Ralph Salisbury, Lars Nordström, and Harald Gaski. Karasjok: DAT, 1994. Unpaginated work.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue