Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature : Negotiating Place and Identity
Cottages Literature and society Norwegian literature Vacation homes Criticism, interpretation, etc
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
2014
EISBN 9781611476491
The seter as a transgressive allegorical home.
Cabin, class, and nation.
The hunter's cabin as anti-modern retreat.
The golden age of cabin therapy.
The post-cabin in late modernity.
Vacation cabins are ubiquitous in Norway, with roughly half the population using them on a regular basis. Through analysis of literary representations of cabins, this book demonstrates that while one tends to think of cabin culture as essentially unchanging over a long span of time, it has in fact changed dramatically over the past two centuries, and that it is an extremely rich and complex cultural phenomenon deeply imbedded in the construction of national identity.
Cabin, class, and nation.
The hunter's cabin as anti-modern retreat.
The golden age of cabin therapy.
The post-cabin in late modernity.
Vacation cabins are ubiquitous in Norway, with roughly half the population using them on a regular basis. Through analysis of literary representations of cabins, this book demonstrates that while one tends to think of cabin culture as essentially unchanging over a long span of time, it has in fact changed dramatically over the past two centuries, and that it is an extremely rich and complex cultural phenomenon deeply imbedded in the construction of national identity.
