Norske Digte for Skole Og Hjem (Norwegian Edition)

Auden, her books were invisible from midcentury until the mid-1970s when Alice Kessler-Harris edited four volumes for republication, including Bread Givers, arguing for their importance as documents of the immigration of working women. With something of the fervor if not the cosmopolitanism of the Jews, Scandinavians who had settled in the states and territories of the Northwest Plains built for themselves, language-group by language-group, strong periodical presses, sectarian schools and universities as well as churches, and organizations for the promotion of their Old World literatures and cultures. Despite the institutional commitment to their native tongues, writers were soon using English to treat Old World themes, and those that won national attention were, time and again, of Norwegian background: from the early novelist Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen to the historian Marcus Hansen, who set forth the principle of "third generation return." The first Norwegian American novel, Boyesen's Gunnar (1874), was written in English, though its material was, in the words of one critic, "all Norwegian," meaning not only that it was set in Norway among goatherds but also that it featured a mermaid and several trolls ...»