This innovative volume presents, for the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) in one comprehensive resource. Written by scholars from a range of countries, it highlights the interdisciplinarity of current Lagerlöf research and the latest trends in it, frequently cutting across genres, media, and disciplines. The structure of the book - with dedicated sections to performance, film, and intermediality; transnational narratives; and European transmission - is reinforced by the extensive introductory portal. The volume includes a range of illustrations previously rarely displayed, and the notes and detailed bibliographical section will help ensure its position as a platform for Lagerlöf scholarship for years to come. Generously equipped with photos, references, and an extensive bibliography, the volume provides offers a model for interdisciplinary research in the arts and humanities.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• I INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Re-Mapping Lagerlöf
    • The volume and its parameters
  • 2. Selma Lagerlöf in context
  • 3. A star in a constellation
    • The international women’s movement as a context for reading the works of Selma Lagerlöf
• II READERS, PERFORMANCE, CONSTRUCTIONS
  • 4. Sectional portal
  • 5. The reader in history and letters to the author
    • The case of Selma Lagerlöf and her audience
  • 6. Mårbacka: Larders, cow-houses, and other spiritual matters
  • 7. In the eyes of the beholder
    • Du coté de chez Selma Lagerlöf
• III INTERMEDIALITY AND FILM
  • 8. Sectional portal
  • 9. Selma Lagerlöf in the golden age of Swedish silent cinema
  • 10. Jerusalem, Sons of Ingmar, and the transparent thickness of the cinematic view
  • 11. ‘Nothing about art is innocent’
    • Reading Edelfelt and Stiller
  • 12. The Phantom Carriage and the concept of melodrama
  • 13. Nils Holgersson and a Japanese animated series
• IV (TRANS)NATIONAL NARRATIVES AND EUROPEAN TRANSMISSIONS
  • 14. Sectional portal
  • 15. Text and transnational terrain, 1888–1918
  • 16. The many facets of a diamond
    • Space, change and identity in Selma Lagerlöf’s The Miracles of Antichrist
  • 17. Gender, war, and canon
    • Selma Lagerlöf and Sara Wacklin
  • 18. Violence and the uncanny in Selma Lagerlöf’s ‘Gammal fäbodsägen’
  • 19. Selma Lagerlöf’s story in Czech
  • 20. Nils in the Netherlands
    • Selma Lagerlöf in Dutch and Frisian, 1911–1921
  • 21. Journeys into English
    • An overview of the English-language versions of Nils Holgersson and anglophone academic discourse
  • 22. ‘Dear Selma’—‘Dear Velma’
    • Velma Swanston Howard’s letters to Selma Lagerlöf
  • 23. Selma Lagerlöf in Nazi Germany
    • Not banned, not forgotten: Lord Arne’s Silver as a Nazi Frontbuch
• Bibliography
• Illustrations
• Contributors