Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance (New Directions in Scandinavian Studies)

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331 A Aall, Herman Harris, 187 Aaslestad, Petter, 5 abortion, 25, 53, 70, 121, 204 African Americans, 111, 114, 235 Africans, 12, 20–21; in Norway, 117–18; as threat to Norwegian society, 112 Aftenrøde (Evening glow), 104–7 Ager, Will T., 84 agriculture, 40, 76–77. See also Markens grøde Aikio, Matti, 165 American Civil War, 120 Amtmandens døttre, 52 Andenæs, Johannes, 220, 225, 228 Andersen, Hans Christian, 117 Andersen, Marie, 106, 146. See also Hamsun, Marie Anderson, Carl, 216, 224 Anglo-Saxon worldview, 4 anthropology, 22 anti-modernism, 15, 43 anti-Semitism, 40, 186–187, 194–95, 235 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 13 Armenians, 156–57 Arneberg, Per, 48–49 artist(s): degeneracy and, 49, 53–54; depiction of domestic life, 53–54, 227; male, 126; orientalism and, 136–37; Scandinavian expatriate, 47–50, 141; state persecution of, 222–23. See also Hamsun, Knut Artnzen, Sven, 212 Aryanism, 183 Asbjørnsen, Per Christian, 48–49 Aschehoug Publishing House, 39 Astrup, Nikolai, 48 “August Strindberg,” 19, 67 August trilogy, 15 Axtell, James, 93 Index 332 i n d e x B banality, 5, 8 Bang, Herman, 55 Battle of the sexes, 145, 227 Benedictsson, Victoria, 58 Bennett, Henry Hamilton, 84–85 Benoni og Rosa (Benoni and Rosa), 178 Berg, Roald, 170 Berggreen, Brit, 76–77 Bergland, Betty, 32, 87, 90 Berman, Marshall, 10 Beyer, Harald, 194 Birmingham, Robert, 90, 94 birth control. See contraception Bjørby, Pål, 60 Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 33, 34, 53, 87, 120, 125, 200 Black race, 38 Blom, Ida, 65–66 Bolckman, Alex, 79 Bolshevism, 17, 182, 303n58 Bonnevie, Kristine, 25, 38 Børn av tiden (Children of the age), 41, 107–10; race in, 109–10 Braatøy, Trygve, 146–47, 150, 234 Brandes, Georg, 34–35, 39, 53, 56, 142 Bremer, Fredrika, 52, 86 Brenna, Brita S., 117–18 “Brev om kvinden” (A letter about woman), 67 Brox, Ottar, 170 Bryn, Halfdan, 27–28, 184–85 Bull, Ole, 35 C Castberg, Johan, 25, 34, 35 Castberg Law, 25 castration, 182, 201, 230 Celts, 29, 31 chastity, 53 children, 38, 63, 230. See also Hamsun , Knut Christensen, Olav, 115 Clauss, Ludwig Ferdinand, 183 Cohn, Dorrit, 217 Collett, Camilla Wergeland, 52 Collin, Christen, 181 colonial ambivalence, 85 Combüchen, Sigrid, 6 Communist Manifesto, 10 contraception, 25, 38, 65–66; in Markens grøde, 73–74 creativity and gender, 60 The Cultural Life of Modern America (ed. Barbara Morgridge), 121 D Dahl, Hans Fredrik, 6–8, 191, 239 Dahlerup, Pil, 56 Dangerous Woman, 57 darkness, 14 Darwin, Charles, 22 Darwin, Leonard, 22 Deavin, Mark, 232 decadence, 56 degeneration, 13, 19, 26, 38, 52; artists’ articulation of, 48; family structure and, 63–67; and geography and climate, 20, 89–90; and race-mixing, 41, 111. See also eugenics; women Deloria, Philip, 83, 86 democracy, 13, 31, 39, 187, 200, 223, 233; American, 70, 118–20, 126, 186–87; and outsiders, 31 demographics, 13 Den gaadefulle (The enigmatic one), 128 Denmark, 141–42 i n d e x 333 Den sidste glæde (The last joy), 59, 134, 178–79 “det amerikanske overmot” (the American arrogance), 201 deviancy, 55 Dijkstra, Bram, 55, 58 Dinesen, Wilhelm, 33, 86 Dingstad, Ståle, 5, 128, 134, 182 A Doll’s House (Henrik Ibsen), 52, 79, 82 Dronning Tamara (Queen Tamara), 112, 145–51; marriage in, 137, 138, 144–45; masculinity in, 143, 144; religion in, 138–39, 143–44, 145; view of women in, 144, 147–51 E East, the, 98, 140 effeminacy, 54, 78, 124, 125 Eisenberg, Leslie E., 90, 94 emasculation, 53, 201 emigration, 31–33, 166 Engström, Albert, 161 Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun (Robert Ferguson), 5 Enlightenment, the, 97, 154 “England må i kne!” (England to her knees!), 196 Enquist, P. O., 214, 225 Eriksen, Anne, 115 eroticism, 14 Eskimos. See Inuit “Et brev fra Knut Hamsun” (A letter from Knut Hamsun), 201, 209–10 “Et livsfragment” (A fragment of life), 57–58, 125 “Et ord til os ved krigsutbruddet” (A word to us as war breaks out), 188 eugenics, 21–28, 185, 234; Germany and, 23; “mainline” (“old style”), 21–22; “negative,” 23; opposition to, in Norway, 24–25; “positive,” 23; and racial degeneration, 21; “reform” (“new style”), 21–22; United States and, 23; women’s rights and, 51. See also Hamsun, Knut Evang, Karl, 21, 25–26, 28, 38, 51 exoticism, 12, 48; racial, 14; and...