Ibsen in Context

Narve Fulsås is Professor of Modern History in the Department of Archaeology, History and Religious Studies at the University of Tromsø – the Arctic University of Norway. He has published on Norwegian cultural and intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author of the introduction and notes to the critical edition of Ibsen's letters published in Henrik Ibsens skrifter (2005–2010, 4 vols.), he is also the co-author (with Tore Rem) of Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama (Cambridge, 2018). Tore Rem is Professor of English literature and the Director of the interdisciplinary research initiative UiO: Nordic at the University of Oslo. He has published on Victorian literature, book history and the early English language appropriations of Ibsen and has been head of the board of the Centre for Ibsen Studies. He is editor of the new Penguin Classics Ibsen (2014–19, 4 vols.) and the co-author (with Narve Fulsås) of Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama (Cambridge, 2018).

'The volume is a fine complement to The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, ed. by James McFarlane, and it joins a recent spate of titles on the genius progenitor of realism on the modern stage … Highly recommended.' H. I. Einsohn, Choice Magazine

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Chronology; Part I. Life and Career: 1. Early years in Norway Narve Fulsås; 2. From theatre to book Narve Fulsås; 3. Bourgeois drama Narve Fulsås; Part II. Culture and Society: 4. Genres Mads B. Claudi; 5. Realism Derek Miller; 6. Theatre Julie Holledge; 7. Visual arts Toril Moi; 8. Music Daniel M. Grimley; 9. Philosophy Kristin Gjesdal; 10. Science Kirsten Shepherd-Barr; 11. Feminism Toril Moi; 12. Capitalism Alisa Zhulina; Part III. Scandinavian Reception: 13. The Ibsen book Kamilla Aslaksen; 14. Publishing and readerships Henning Hansen and Maria Purtoft; 15. Criticism Ståle Dingstad; 16. Celebrity Peter Larsen; Part IV. Internationalization: 17. Copyright Giuliano D'Amico; 18. Censorship Tore Rem; 19. German reception Ruth Schor; 20. British reception Tore Rem; 21. French reception Kirsten Shepherd-Barr; 22. Parodies Mark B. Sandberg; 23. Early globalization Julie Holledge; Part V. Afterlives: 24. Biography Ståle Dingstad; 25. Academic responses Erik Bjerck Hagen; 26. American Ibsens Dean Krouk; 27. Japanese Ibsens Reiko Abe Auestad; 28. Chinese Ibsens Chengzhou He; 29. Indian Ibsens Krishna Sen; 30. Mass media and popular reception Ellen Rees; Further reading; Index.