List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Note on translations; 1. Roots; 2. The seminal women of the early career; 3. Love and marriage; 4. Love and the kingdom; 5. The poetry of feminism; 6. Mrs Alving's ghosts; 7. A new woman and three housewives; 8. Taming wild women; 9. The deviant woman as hero: Hedda Gabler; 10. The glories and dangers of the rejuvenating feminine; 11. Women who live for love; 12. The revolt of the muse: when we dead awaken; In conclusion: Ibsen's women and Ibsen's modernism; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
First study of the women in Ibsen's plays and in the life of the playwright.
Joan Templeton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Long Island University, Brooklyn Center, New York. Templeton is a noted Ibsen scholar and has also published widely on other modern dramatists. She has coedited an anthology of feminist comparative criticism Reconfigured Spheres: Feminist Explorations of Literary Space (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994), taught extensively in France, and edits Ibsen: News and Comment, the journal of the Ibsen Society of America.
'Joan Templeton's Ibsen's Women is a book to contend with. Templeton is a major Ibsen scholar, and her reading of Ibsen is broad-gauged and inclusive ... She exposes the shibboleths and blindspots of mainstream Ibsen criticism, shows how persistently and tendentiously Ibsen has been misread ... A tonic revaluation of what a major dramatist actually wrought ... A delight to read.' Arnold Weinstein, Scandinavian Studies 'Ibsen's Women marks a paradigm shift in Ibsen scholarship, moving 'the woman question' from the marginal category of 'as aspect of' to the core of the dramatic oeuvre ... This is dazzling close reading, sophisticated, rigorous, poetically informed, surprising, in short, artful. Templeton's command of her material is masterly ... A powerful book. The critical canon must make way for it.' Mary Kay Norseng, Ibsen News and Comment 'Why is A Doll's House not dated? This is one of the questions Joan Templeton answers in this very important book ... Her style is witty and graceful and blessedly free of modish critical jargon. Her text is aimed at a wide variety of readers: the undergraduate, the 'general reader', and the serious student of modern drama ... Copious and fascinating footnotes.' Barry Jacobs, The Boston Review of Books 'A goldmine of information ... The scope and wide-ranging coverage of this book makes it indispensable reading for anybody wishing to teach or write about Ibsen.' Toril Moi, Ibsen Studies 'An excellent study.' The Norton Anthology of World Literature
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