Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908-1979

By: Svelstad, Per Esben

This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as "unnatural." Providing in-depth studies of a variety of texts, this book demonstrates the merits of bridging the gap between the "de-naturalizing" project of gender and queer theory on the one hand, and, on the other, the ecocritical centering of material, nonhuman environments.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031560329
• ISBN13: 9783031560323
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages