Cold Counsel: Women of Old Norse Literature and Mythology

Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.

Author: Sarah M. Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/21/2001
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780815319665

About the Author
Sarah M. Anderson teaches in the Department of English at Princeton University, and Karen Swenson teaches at Virginia Tech University.