Corpses, Curses, and Cannibalism: Containment and Excess in Selma Lagerlöf's "Bannlyst" and its Reception

Nordlund examines how Selma Lagerlof's literary project was initially conceived and has subsequently evolved in Swedish literary criticism during the twentieth century. The history of Bannlyst's reception illustrates how each interpretation and evaluation selects and reshapes features of the text in accordance with the critic's personal and political agenda and the gendered biases and blind spots of received academic practice.