Reviews
'Why is A Doll's House not dated? This is one of the questions Joan Templeton answers in this very important book ... Her style is witty and graceful and blessedly free of modish critical jargon. Her text is aimed at a wide variety of readers: the undergraduate, the 'general reader', and the serious student of modern drama ... Copious and fascinating footnotes.'Barry Jacobs, The Boston Review of Books, 'Why is A Doll's House not dated? This is one of the questions Joan Templeton answers in this very important book ... Her style is witty and graceful and blessedly free of modish critical jargon. Her text is aimed at a wide variety of readers: the undergraduate, the 'general reader', and the serious student of modern drama ... Copious and fascinating footnotes.' Barry Jacobs, The Boston Review of Books, ‘Why is A Doll’s House not dated? This is one of the questions Joan Templeton answers in this very important book … Her style is witty and graceful and blessedly free of modish critical jargon. Her text is aimed at a wide variety of readers: the undergraduate, the ‘general reader’, and the serious student of modern drama … Copious and fascinating footnotes.’Barry Jacobs, The Boston Review of Books, 'Joan Templeton's Ibsen's Women is a book to contend with. Templeton is a major Ibsen scholar, and her reading of Ibsen is broad-gauged and inclusive … She exposes the shibboleths and blindspots of mainstream Ibsen criticism, shows how persistently and tendentiously Ibsen has been misread … A tonic revaluation of what a major dramatist actually wrought … A delight to read.' Arnold Weinstein, Scandinavian Studies, 'A goldmine of information … The scope and wide-ranging coverage of this book makes it indispensable reading for anybody wishing to teach or write about Ibsen.' Toril Moi, Ibsen Studies, ‘A goldmine of information … The scope and wide-ranging coverage of this book makes it indispensable reading for anybody wishing to teach or write about Ibsen.’Toril Moi, Ibsen Studies, ‘Ibsen’s Women marks a paradigm shift in Ibsen scholarship, moving ‘the woman question’ from the marginal category of ‘as aspect of’ to the core of the dramatic oeuvre … This is dazzling close reading, sophisticated, rigorous, poetically informed, surprising, in short, artful. Templeton’s command of her material is masterly … A powerful book. The critical canon must make way for it.’Mary Kay Norseng, Ibsen News and Comment, 'Joan Templeton's Ibsen's Women is a book to contend with. Templeton is a major Ibsen scholar, and her reading of Ibsen is broad-gauged and inclusive ... She exposes the shibboleths and blindspots of mainstream Ibsen criticism, shows how persistently and tendentiously Ibsen has been misread ... A tonic revaluation of what a major dramatist actually wrought ... A delight to read.'Arnold Weinstein, Scandinavian Studies, 'Joan Templeton's Ibsen's Women is a book to contend with. Templeton is a major Ibsen scholar, and her reading of Ibsen is broad-gauged and inclusive ... She exposes the shibboleths and blindspots of mainstream Ibsen criticism, shows how persistently and tendentiously Ibsen has been misread ... A tonic revaluation of what a major dramatist actually wrought ... A delight to read.' Arnold Weinstein, Scandinavian Studies, 'Why is A Doll's House not dated? This is one of the questions Joan Templeton answers in this very important book … Her style is witty and graceful and blessedly free of modish critical jargon. Her text is aimed at a wide variety of readers: the undergraduate, the 'general reader', and the serious student of modern drama … Copious and fascinating footnotes.' Barry Jacobs, The Boston Review of Books, 'Ibsen's Women marks a paradigm shift in Ibsen scholarship, moving 'the woman question' from the marginal category of 'as aspect of' to the core of the dramatic oeuvre ... This is dazzling close reading, sophisticated, rigorous, poetically informed, surprising, in short, artful. Templeton's command of her material is masterly ... A powerful book. The critical canon must make way for it.' Mary Kay Norseng, Ibsen News and Comment, ‘Joan Templeton’s Ibsen’s Women is a book to contend with. Templeton is a major Ibsen scholar, and her reading of Ibsen is broad-gauged and inclusive … She exposes the shibboleths and blindspots of mainstream Ibsen criticism, shows how persistently and tendentiously Ibsen has been misread … A tonic revaluation of what a major dramatist actually wrought … A delight to read.’Arnold Weinstein, Scandinavian Studies, 'A goldmine of information ... The scope and wide-ranging coverage of this book makes it indispensable reading for anybody wishing to teach or write about Ibsen.' Toril Moi, Ibsen Studies, 'Ibsen's Women marks a paradigm shift in Ibsen scholarship, moving 'the woman question' from the marginal category of 'as aspect of' to the core of the dramatic oeuvre … This is dazzling close reading, sophisticated, rigorous, poetically informed, surprising, in short, artful. Templeton's command of her material is masterly … A powerful book. The critical canon must make way for it.' Mary Kay Norseng, Ibsen News and Comment, 'A goldmine of information ... The scope and wide-ranging coverage of this book makes it indispensable reading for anybody wishing to teach or write about Ibsen.'Toril Moi, Ibsen Studies, 'Ibsen's Women marks a paradigm shift in Ibsen scholarship, moving 'the woman question' from the marginal category of 'as aspect of' to the core of the dramatic oeuvre ... This is dazzling close reading, sophisticated, rigorous, poetically informed, surprising, in short, artful. Templeton's command of her material is masterly ... A powerful book. The critical canon must make way for it.'Mary Kay Norseng, Ibsen News and Comment