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Tables of Contents for Ibsen's Women
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
xiii
Preface
xv
List of abbreviations
xix
Note on translations
xxi
Roots
1
22
The seminal women of the early career
23
17
Revising the fatal woman: Catiline's ``worser spirit''
23
6
Moving on: new ingenues, a troll temptress, a woman-centered triangle, and gender
29
11
Love and marriage
40
34
The Queen of Iceland and her step-mother
40
13
Love's tragedy: The Vikings at Helgeland
53
5
Love's Comedy: feminist satire
58
16
Love and the kingdom
74
36
The feminization of history: The Pretenders
74
6
Marrying heaven and earth: the his-and-her deities of Brand
80
10
Troll sex and pure love: Peer Gynt's Manichean theory of woman
90
18
Julian's ``pure woman'': a note on Emperor and Galilean
108
2
The Poetry of feminism
110
36
The Doll House backlash
110
18
Nora's predecessors in art and life
128
9
The death of chivalry: masculine and feminine in A Doll House
137
9
Mrs. Alving's ghosts
146
17
A new woman and three housewives
163
18
The doctor's disciples: An Enemy of the People
163
3
Sense and sensibility: women and men in The Wild Duck
166
15
Taming wild women
181
23
The beatification of Rebecca West: Rosmersholm
181
13
The acclimatization of Ellida and Bolette Wanged: The Lady from the Sea
194
10
The deviant woman as hero: Hedda Gabler
204
29
The unreal woman in the realistic play: Hedda as anomaly
204
2
The defective woman: Hedda as type
206
4
The author's right to a subject: Hedda's reality
210
8
The agents-provocateurs
218
7
The closing and the springing of the trap
225
4
Hedda's difference
229
4
The glories and dangers of the rejuvenating feminine
233
45
May loves of a September life
233
30
Beloved nemesis: The Master Builder
263
15
Women who live for love
278
24
Rita Allmers' law of change: Little Eyolf
278
13
Down among the dead women: John Gabriel Borkman
291
11
The revolt of the muse: When We Dead Awaken
302
21
In Conclusion: Ibsen's women and Ibsen's modernism
323
13
Notes
336
37
Select bibliography
373
7
Index
380