Noorwegens Letterkunde in de Negentiende Eeuw

A concise survey examines nineteenth-century Norwegian literary life from the post-1814 cultural depression through a national awakening, beginning with the debates around Wergeland and Welhaven. It explains the lingering Danish linguistic and institutional influence, the recovery of rural oral traditions, and the emergence of romanticism, including folk and historical strains, followed by a chronologically linked realist movement and later directions. The study treats the language movement toward landsmål (vernacular writing), profiles key lyrical and younger writers, and explains editorial selection and scope decisions, generally ending around the century's close.