Dutch -- Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria. 1: I guds namn, 1000-1800 edited by Elisabeth Moller Jensen and others / Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria. 2: Fadershuset, 1800-1900 edited by Elisabeth Moller Jensen and others

Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria. 1: I Guds namn, 1000-1800. Elisabeth Moller Jensen et al., eds. Hoganas, Sweden. Wiken. 1993. 595 pages.

Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria. 2: Fadershuset, 1800-1900. Elisabeth Moller Jensen et al., eds. Hoganas, Sweden. Wiken. 1993. 593 pages.

During the last several decades feminist literary scholars in the various Nordic countries, as in much of the rest of the world, have striven both to revise the canon to make it more inclusive and to reevaluate established female writers in light of current theoretical approaches. Since 1981, women's literary histories or less systematic collections of texts about women writers have appeared in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria (Nordic Women's Literary History), of which two volumes of a projected four have now appeared, represents the first systematic, collaborative effort to place individual writers and national traditions in a wider context.

In the introduction to the first volume, I Guds namn (In the Name of God), Elisabeth Moller Jensen, who has served as chief editor for the entire project, explains the principles governing the editorial committee. The group quickly rejected the notion that a single, all-encompassing theory of women's literature is possible or would be fruitful....