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In:Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History
Edited by Gunilla Hermansson and Jens Lohfert Jørgensen
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 15] 2020
► pp. vii–x

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Published online: 1 December 2020

https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.15.toc

Table of contents

Series editor’s preface XI

Contributors XIII

Illustrations XVII

Acknowledgements XIX

Introduction 1

Gunilla Hermansson

Jens Lohfert Jørgensen

Part I.Cool explorers

Travels in the cold zone 21

Henning Howlid Wærp

Nordic polar heroes: The critical potential of literary history 37

Lars Handesten

Serious playfulness? Philippe Guicheteau’s Sunday letters from Finland 53

Heidi Grönstrand

Part II.Cool nature

The cultural memory of circumpolar survival 67

Sissel Furuseth

At home in the wilderness: Gunnar Gunnarsson’s Advent 81

Jón Yngvi Jóhannsson

Weather as human space in Harald Voetmann’s Alt under månen 97

Dan Ringgaard

Part III.Decolonising cool

Deco(o)lonising white femininity? Of goddesses and silkworms in Karin Boye’s Astarte 113

Therese Svensson

Indigenous cool: Performativity and place-making in sami literature, art and music 127

Anne Heith

The coolness of Nordic science in fin de siècle Latin-American Literary imagination 143

Andrea Castro

Part IV.Erotic cool

Erotic reason and female desire in Maria Jotuni and Elin Wägner 161

Katarina Leppänen

Kukku Melkas

Cool love and economics in Herman Bang’s Stuk 175

Signe Leth Gammelgaard

Part V.Branding cool

The Sublime North: Iceland as an artistic discourse originating in the nineteenth century 191

Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson

The attraction of Nordic freshness: Melancholy, eroticism and health in “Vårvindar friska” 205

Gunilla Hermansson

Rebranding “the North”: Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer’s sudden American success in the 1840s 223

Åsa Arping

Part VI.Heroic cool

Standing cool against sword, spears and suffering 241

Per Thomas Andersen

Cool apathy: Approaches to the emotional life of Leonora Christina’s Jammers Minde 255

Jens Lohfert Jørgensen

Queen Christina’s coolness 269

Carin Franzén

Part VII.Cool aesthetics

Who can write sensible books in weather like this? Carl August Thielo as experimental eighteenth-century novelist 287

Simona Zetterberg Gjerlevsen

Passionately cool: Concrete poetry in Denmark 303

Tania Ørum

Digital astro-evolution and ecological thinking in Johannes Heldén’s Astroecology 319

Hans Kristian S. Rustad

Index 337