1st Edition
Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants Reproduction and the Future in Ibsen’s Late Plays
Prologue: A Nursery at the Museum
Introduction: Ibsen’s Empty Nurseries
Chapter One: Endless Aunts, Endless Books: The Future According to Hedda Gabler
Chapter Two: Age is Just a Number: Strange Calculations in The Master Builder
Chapter Three: A Dead Child Cannot Look Back: Lost Boys in Little Eyolf
Chapter Four: Unfaithful Authenticity: Going Backstage in the Bourgeois Home
Epilogue: Survivors
Biography
Olivia Noble Gunn is Assistant Professor and Sverre Arestad Endowed Chair of Norwegian Studies at UW, Seattle. She completed her PhD in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine in 2012. Gunn has been a fellow of the Society of Scholars at the Simpson Center for the Humanities and received a Royalty Research Fund grant to support archival research in Norway. She has published research on adaptations of Ibsen and on constructions of the family, class, gender, and racialization in Norwegian literature and film. Her teaching interests range from the modern novel to representations of sexuality in the Nordic countries. Gunn currently serves on the MLA Executive Committee for the Forum CLCS Nordic and as the President of the Ibsen Society of America.
