Maria Sandel och folkbildningen. Inte bara vett och vetande – bildningens betydelse i Maria Sandels författarskap. : Maria Sandel and the people’s education. Not just sense and knowledge – the significance of Bildung in Maria Sandel’s writings.

• This book deals with the early Swedish working-class writer Maria Sandel (1870–1927), investigating the theme of popular education and Bildung in her writings from a literary and historical point of view. The issue is the compound meaning and significance of the idea of Bildung/education in her narrative and the unconventional literary devices and rhetorical strategies she uses to address her reader. Maria Sandel supported herself as an industrial seamstress in Stockholm, also engaging herself in the growing labour-movement. Although an autodidact, she published six books of prose-narrative and a large number of poems and short stories in the social-democratic press. All her writings depict everyday life in the poor working-class quarters of Stockholm, adopting a class-conscious perspective, focussing on the need of education as well as material improvement. Maria Sandel constantly strived to deepen and broaden her education. As a richly varied theme in her writings, education encompasses not only knowledge and learning, but also cultivation, manners and morals in the classical sense of Bildung. This book is devoted to the manifold view of education that is exposed in her narra-tive and is literary expressions. Analysis of themes and devices in her texts will show how her writings partly change from her debut in 1908 to her last book in 1927. The militant class-perspective of her early texts gradually shift toward a more conciliatory civic attitude, emphasizing individual moral-psychological maturation and bourgeois virtues like neatness, respectability, decency, order and stability. These tendencies reflect the ongoing societal development toward a class-transcending reformism and Social-democratic ideas of society as a folkhem (”home for the whole people”), made possible by the enforced parliamentary position of the labour party. A driving force for this development was the growing importance of popular education. This book is composed in ten chapters, presenting (1) an overview of the author-ship; (2–5) historical backgrounds concerning the current concept of Bildung; the ongoing industrialization and historical phases of the class-struggle; people’s education and the popular Bildungs-movement; and the various literary and cultural contexts of the time. Chapter 6–9 investigate Maria Sandel’s work in chronological order: the early collective class narratives (6–7), and the late novels of education and formation. The last chapter is a summary of results, also including a deepened discussion of the interaction of pragmatics, rhetoric, aesthetics, and literary tradition of Maria Sandel’s narrative.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

addressivity

Bible

Bildung

Christianity

class

desautomatisation

devotional literature

estrangement

intertextuality

labour-movement

literary recycling

minor literature

Maria Sandel

narrative

popular education

popular literature

reflective reading

rhetoric

Social-Democracy

working-class literature

Publikations- och innehållstyp

vet (ämneskategori)

bok (ämneskategori)