Introduction

1. Gender and Vernaculars in Digital Humanities and World Literature

2. Fagerholm Goes Oprah: Minor Literature, Global Market, and Gender in Literary Exchange

3. Transnational Reception: Nordic Women Writers in Fin de SieÌcle Finland

4. Elusive Women Authors in Norwegian Nineteenth-Century Reading Societies

5. The Soviet Reception of Selma Lagerlöf

6. The Changing Images of Simone de Beauvoir in Norway

7. Danger, You Are Entering the Garbage Vortex! Salvaging the History of Women’s Participation in European Literary Culture

Anka Ryall is Professor Emerita in the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She has published on Virginia Woolf's border crossings, travel writing and Arctic textual culture. Her latest co-edited book is The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults (Routledge, 2020).

Anne Birgitte Rønning is Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. Her research includes feminist studies on Scandinavian and European literature, such as questions of gender and genre in historical novels and female Robinsonades, and cultural transfer in Enlightenment books targeted at female readers.