Ibsen in Context
Will be published approx. on 19. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
326 pages
978-1-108-43473-7 (ISBN)
Description
Henrik Ibsen, the 'Father of Modern Drama', came from a seemingly inauspicious background. What are the key contexts for understanding his appearance on the world stage? This collection provides thirty contributions from leading scholars in theatre studies, literary studies, book history, philosophy, music, and history, offering a rich interdisciplinary understanding of Ibsen's work, with chapters ranging across cultural and aesthetic contexts including feminism, scientific discovery, genre, publishing, music, and the visual arts. The book ends by charting Ibsen's ongoing globalization and gives valuable overviews of major trends within Ibsen studies. Accessibly written, while drawing on the most recent scholarship, Ibsen in Context provides unique access to Ibsen the man, his works, and their afterlives across the world.
Reviews / Votes
'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 MagazineMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
477 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-43473-7 (9781108434737)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Narve Fulsas | Tore Rem
Ibsen in Context
Book
04/2021
Cambridge University Press
€133.30
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Persons
Narve Fulsas is Professor of Modern History in the Department of Archaeology, History and Religious Studies at the University of Tromso - 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 Fulsas) of Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama (Cambridge, 2018).
Content
Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Chronology; Part I. Life and Career: 1. Early years in Norway Narve Fulsas; 2. From theatre to book Narve Fulsas; 3. Bourgeois drama Narve Fulsas; 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 Stale 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 Stale 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.