To become the self one is

To become the self one is. After "A saloonkeeper's daughter" was published in Norwegian in Minneapolis in 1887, it receded into oblivion to reside there for more than a century. In 2002 it was translated and made available to an english-reading audience. The essays collected in this critical companion approach Drude Krog Janson's novel from a range of various perspectives pertaining to social, cultural and gender history, aesthetic, generic and narrative fields of inquiry.