By contextualizing August Strindberg against other early modernists, including Kafka, Conrad, Rilke, and Breton, Stenport emphasizes the burgeoning transnationality of literature at the turn of the last century.

Introduction

1. National Betrayal: Public, Private, and Railway Travel: A Madman’s Defence
2. Rural Modernism: Ethnography, Photography, and Recollection: Among French Peasants
3. Parisian Streets, Pre-Surrealism, and Pastoral Landscapes: Inferno
4. Speed, Displacements, and Berlin Modernity: The Cloister
5. Recording, Habitation, and Colonial Imaginations: The Roofing Ceremony

Anna Westerstahl Stenport is Associate Professor and Director of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Illinois. She is the author or editor of numerous publications about modern Scandinavian literature, culture, film, media, and drama, including Lukas Moodysson's Show Me Love (2012) and The International Strindberg: New Critical Essays (2012).