Women Writing Intimate Spaces

Birgitta Lindh Estelle is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature with a specialisation in Theatre at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has published widely on gender and nineteenth century playwriting. Her recent publications include a monograph in Swedish on Alfhild Agrell’s, Victoria Benedictsson’s and Anne Charlotte Leffler’s late nineteenth century playwriting. She has also contributed to Swedish Women’s Writings on Export. Tracing the Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth Century (2019).Carmen Beatrice Duțu is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, Romania. She published Feminist Literary Criticism. A Comparative Perspective, 2012.Viola Parente-Čapková is a Professor of Finnish Literature at the University of Turku, Finland. She has published widely on the topic of transnational fin de siècle women’s writing in Europe. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Nordic Literature of Decadence (2020).

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsBiographical Notes on the AuthorsIntroductionBirgitta Lindh Estelle, Viola Parente-Čapková, Carmen Beatrice DuţuPart 1Intimacies in Transnational Women’s Writing1 Women, Writing, and the Cultural Politics of Intimacy in Modern RomaniaCarmen Beatrice Duţu2 Freedom as a “Promised Land” Marie Linder’s En qvinna af vår tidArja Rosenholm, Kati Launis, Viola Parente-Čapková, Natalia Mihailova3 Stifling Intimacies Middle-Class Marriage in the Short Stories of Four Central European Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyKatja Mihurko PonižPart 2Intimacies in Fictive European Spaces at the Fin-de-Siècle4 Melodramatic Spaces Intimacy and Emancipation in Swedish Women’s PlaywritingBirgitta Lindh Estelle5 Feminism, Intimacy and Darwinian Time The New Women of Elin WägnerCecilia Annell6 Failing Intimacy in Saimi Öhrlund’s 1910s’ NovelsElsi Hyttinen7 Intimacy and Spatiality in Three Novels by Regina di LuantoUlla Åkerström8 Intimate Spaces and Sexual Violence in Two Novels by Carmen de BurgosElena LindholmPart 3Intimate Authorship in Space and Time9 A Collective Sense of Intimacy Carmen Sylva’s PosturesRoxana Patraș and Lucreţia Pascariu10 Discovering Intimacy in Impressionist Poetry The Voice of Slovene Vida JerajAlenka Jensterle Doležal11 Intimacy and Influence between Women Authors The Case of Isabelle de CharrièreSuzan van Dijk, collaborating with Josephine RomboutsIndex