International Influences in Finnish Working-Class Literature and Its Research

An important addition to the knowledge of working-class literature in general and Finnish working-class literature in particular. The collection includes the following Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti, and Kati "New Research Trends in Finnish Working-Class Introduction"; Launis, "The Making of the Finnish Working Class in Early Twentieth-Century Working-Class Literature"; Pollari, "The Literally International Adventures of Vihtori Kosonen": Hyttinen, "Women in Early Capitalism and Other Irrelevant Elvira Willman's Struggle for Working-Class Authorship"; Salmi-Niklander, "'Nor Happiness, nor Majesty, nor Fame': Proletarian Decadence and International Influences in Early Twentieth-Century Finnish Working-Class Literature"; Koivisto, "Devotedly International--But Always Left-Wing Intellectuals and Their Orientation toward International Progressive Culture and Literature in the 1930s and 1940s"; Pynttäri, "Recognizing Your Toivo Pekkanen, Raoul Palmgren, and Literature for the Working Class"; Torninoja-Latola, "'I Have Had a Feeling that Authors Take Their Responsibility Too Lightly': Elvi Sinervo as a Working-Class Author": Peltonen, "Reshaping Finnish Working-Class Hannu Salama's SIINÅ NÄKIJÄ MISSÄ TEKIJÄ as a Postrealistic Novel"; Ojajärvi, "The Dirty The Re-Intensified Antagonism of Capital and Labor, and the Politics of Arto Salminen"; Halmari, Helena (series editor): "Editorial"; Snellman, Hanna, Kaukonen, Scott, Virtanen, Hilary Joy, and Embleton, Sheila (editorial team). Book reviews by Johanna Pentikäinen (on Lieven Ameel's HELSINKI IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY URBAN EXPERIENCE IN FINNISH PROSE FICTION 1890-1940); Ed Dutton (on Jonathan Clements's PRESIDENT, SOLDIER, SPY); and Diane Dowdey (on Kuismin and Driscoll's WHITE FIELD, BLACK NORDIC LITERACY PRACTICES IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY).