Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants: Reproduction and the Future in Ibsen's Late Plays

ISBN-13: 9780367330477 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 194 str.

Olivia N. Gunn

Opis

Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants intervenes in scholarly debates in child studies by arguing that the empty bourgeois nursery is a better symbol for innocence than the child.

O autorze

Olivia Noble Gunn is Assistant Professor and Sverre Arestad Endowed Chair of Norwegian Studies at UW, Seattle. She completed her PhD in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine in 2012. Gunn has been a fellow of the Society of Scholars at the Simpson Center for the Humanities and received a Royalty Research Fund grant to support archival research in Norway. She has published research on adaptations of Ibsen and on constructions of the family, class, gender, and racialization in Norwegian literature and film. Her teaching interests range from the modern novel to representations of sexuality in the Nordic countries. Gunn currently serves on the MLA Executive Committee for the Forum CLCS Nordic and as the President of the Ibsen Society of America.