Transforming Author Museums

Ulrike Spring is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oslo and during this book project was also Visiting Professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Key publications include Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und Arktische Diskurse 1874 (co-author 2015) and Nordic Travels (co-editor 2021).

“This is a fine and rich collection of essays on the topic of the literary museum, notably on the writer's house museum. It offers engaging perspectives and new horizons that in the international scholarship on this topic will be highly appreciated.” • Harald Hendrix, University of Utrecht

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Expanded Spaces and Changing Contexts of  Author MuseumsUlrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea AarbakkePart I: ExpansionChapter 1. New Architecture in Author Museums and CentresElin HaugdalChapter 2. A Displaced Apartment of a Poet in a Museum: Staging and Reception of Franz Grillparzer in the Wien MuseumEva-Maria OroszChapter 3. From Cobwebs to a Web-Based Reality: Drawing Young Adults into a Memorial HouseAnna BenedekChapter 4. Ghostly Voices in the Author MuseumUlrike Spring and Johan SchimanskiChapter 5. Unpacking the Book Collection: Following a Guide, a Curator and a Librarian in an Author MuseumThea AarbakkeChapter 6. The Gunnar Ekelöf Room and the Poet’s Widow as Archivist and AuthorHelena BodinChapter 7. This Is Not a Set of Guidelines – or How (Not) to Exhibit LiteratureVanessa ZeissigPart II: PoliticsChapter 8. New Sites of Worship: Sovietization and Literary Museums in Western Borderlands, 1940–79Anastasia FelcherChapter 9. Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author MuseumsEmily GrafChapter 10. South African Literature, Author Museums and Narrative Expansion: The Olive Schreiner HouseDana Ryan LandeChapter 11. Troublesome Heritage in the Home of Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonMarianne EgelandChapter 12. Housing World Literature: The Norwegian Ibsen MuseumsNarve FulsåsEpilogue: Author Museums and DemocratizationUlrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea AarbakkeIndex