Vol. 40 No. 1-2 (2008)

Published: 2008-10-30

Preamble

Editor's Note

Anders Olsson

1-2
- PDF

Articles

Beat Vision: What Americans Don't See On the Road

Stephen Dougherty

3-13
- PDF
"All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream": Freud's The Uncanny and the Destruction of the Suburban Ideal in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides

Michael Madsen

14-24
- PDF
"Battle is a burning flower": Natural Beauty as the Basis for Jeffers's Opposition to War and His Commitment to Political Neutrality

Peter Quigley

25-49
- PDF
More Than a Mouthful of Brains: The Poetico-Philosophical Nimbleness of Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville

Peter Serritslev Petersen

50-62
- PDF
The US of America: Speech at the NAAS Conference in Tampere, 2007

Gunlög Fur

63-79
- PDF

Special Topic

Transnational Strategies in Higher Education and Cultural Fields: The Case of the United States and Sweden in the 20th Century

Dag Blanck, Mikael Börjesson

80-89
- PDF
Location and Education: Transnational Strategies among Swedish Students in New York in the Late 1990s

Mikael Börjesson

90-109
- PDF
Scholars across the Seas: The American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Sweden-America Foundation in the Trans Atlantic Exchange of Knowledge

Dag Blanck

110-125
- PDF
Study Travels in Theory and Practice: The Sweden-America Foundation and Its Fellows to the U.S., 1919-1939

Andreas Melldahl

126-139
- PDF
American Stars'n'bards, and Swedish Reviewers: The Swedish Field of Literary Criticism and the Local Symbolic Reproduction of Global U.S. Authors

Bo G. Ekelund

140-164
- PDF

Authors in this issue

Contributors

American Studies in Scandinavia

165-166
- PDF

Book Reviews

Willa Cather's Alexander's Bridge - Historical essay and explanatory notes by Tom Quirk, Textual essay and editing by Frederick M. Link

Laura Castor

167-170
- PDF
Jennifer Eastman Attebery's Up in the Rocky Mountains. Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience

Angela Falk

170-173
- PDF
Joel Kuortti and Jopi Nyman's (ed.) Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition

Maria Olaussen

173-177
- PDF
Sirpa Salenius' Florence, Italy: Images of the City in Nineteenth-Century American Writing

Anders Olsson

177-181
- PDF