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A Saloonkeeper´s Daughter
Drude Krog Janson
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Description for A Saloonkeeper´s Daughter
Paperback. With this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English. Editor(s): Overland, Orm (Professor of English, University of Bergen, Norway). Translator(s): Overland, Orm; Thorson, Gerald. Series: The Longfellow Series of American Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 293.
"An authentic story of life in Minneapolis in the late nineteenth century. That ring of authenticity comes clearly from the mind and craft of an artist at work. For the contemporary reader, the novel provides a glimpse of an immigrant society, a culture in exile, and the immigrants' responses to the social scene ...Drawing on the realistic and naturalistic trends in Europe and in America, Janson has written an American novel that anticipates the works of such writers as Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, and Sarah Orne Jewett."-from the Preface by Gerald Thorson First published in Norwegian by a Minneapolis firm ... Read more
"An authentic story of life in Minneapolis in the late nineteenth century. That ring of authenticity comes clearly from the mind and craft of an artist at work. For the contemporary reader, the novel provides a glimpse of an immigrant society, a culture in exile, and the immigrants' responses to the social scene ...Drawing on the realistic and naturalistic trends in Europe and in America, Janson has written an American novel that anticipates the works of such writers as Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, and Sarah Orne Jewett."-from the Preface by Gerald Thorson First published in Norwegian by a Minneapolis firm ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Series
The Longfellow Series of American Languages and Literatures
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801868818
SKU
V9780801868818
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About Drude Krog Janson
Drude Krog Janson (1846-1934) emigrated to Minneapolis in 1882 with her six children to be with her husband, Kristofer Janson, a Unitarian minister and prolific author. Active in the women's suffrage movement, she wrote numerous articles for the Norwegian-American press. Returning to Europe in 1893, she published three more novels and divorced her husband. She died in Copenhagen. Gerald ... Read more
Reviews for A Saloonkeeper´s Daughter
An intriguing book... The novel realistically details middle-class life in the Norwegian-American immigrant community in 1870s Minneapolis.
Clarence Mondale American Studies International At last available in an English translation, this Norwegian American historical novel... tells the story of the beautiful Astrid, an immigrant who struggles to find her way to independence and faith. Janson was 36 when she came ... Read more
Clarence Mondale American Studies International At last available in an English translation, this Norwegian American historical novel... tells the story of the beautiful Astrid, an immigrant who struggles to find her way to independence and faith. Janson was 36 when she came ... Read more