Almquist, Carl Jonas Love
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Scandinavian literature; its heroine, the androgynous Tintomara, embodies Almquists skeptical attitude toward conventional sex roles. Sara Videbeck (1839, tr. 1919), an important feminist novel, is thought to have led to his exile. In his varied career...