Icons of Danish Modernity: Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen

by Julie K. Allen

Book Overview

Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country's deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom lived and worked in Germany for significant periods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295994835
• ISBN13: 9780295994833
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher