Caught in the Enchanter's Net: Amalie and Erik Skram's Letters (Series A: Scandinavian Literary History and Criticism)

Amalie Skram was a major nineteenth-century Norwegian novelist whose novels such as Lucie evoke both the atmosphere of her native town and the battles of the sexes at a time when sexual morality was the subject of a great Nordic debate. Erik Skram was a Danish writer and journalist at the center of the literary life of Copenhagen. The detailed letters they exchanged during the last two decades of the century present a lively picture of a decisive time in the development of both their countries into modern states. They also tell a love story, of a passionate attachment between two very different but equally headstrong people, from the first jolt of attraction through resistance, seduction, marriage, literary partnership, and childbirth, to the final depressing separation.