Orm Øverland
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orm Øverland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orm |
| FAMILY NAME | Øverland |
| SIGNATURE | ØVERLAND O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Professor Henry Wasser and the Henry Wasser Travel Grant for Ph.D. and MA Students in Naas
Thanks to the generosity of Solidelle Fortier Wasser and her son Professor Frederick Wasser NAAS now has a travel grant named for their husband and father, Professor Henry Wasser, for the participation of PhD and MA students in our national and Nordic conferences. Although dearly remembered by Norwegian Americanists of my generation, Henry Wasser may need an introduction to my younger colleagues in NAAS. The following is a brief outline of his pa…
From America to Norway
Book Review| July 01 2014 From America to Norway: Norwegian-American Immigrant Letters, 1838–1914. Volume 1: 1838–1870 From America to Norway: Norwegian-American Immigrant Letters, 1838–1914. Volume 1: 1838–1870. Ed. and trans. Orm Øverland. Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 2012. Pp. 472. Orm Øverland Orm Øverland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2014) 86 (2): 227–229. http…
Karen V. Hansen's Encounter on the Great Plains
Foreign Relations
People in the home countries of past and present immigrants to the United States are America's foreign relations. These relationships have created and continue to create, as Donna R. Gabaccia writes in the introduction to her new book, “transnational linkages created ‘from below’ by immigrants” (p. 1). She demonstrates how these “immigrant foreign relations” are related to American foreign policies “created ‘from above’ by the federal government”…
Getting Started
A Talk at the Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Chair in American Literature at Uppsala University
Eric Dregni's In Cod We Trust
Norwegians on the Prairie
With our focus either on the urban or the rural, the in-between society of the country town has not been fully explored. One census criterion for “urban” is a population of at least 2,500. In common usage, however, a country town is not urban, nor has it been viewed as very attractive: the writers E. W. Howe (The Story of a Country Town, 1883) and Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, 1920) created the images many still have of country towns. In recent et…
Per Seyersted's Robert Cantwell
The many languages of American literature 1870-1930 Norwegian as an example
The preconceived notion that American literature is written in English has served to make American literature in other languages invisible. All too slowly, American literature in Spanish is coming into its own, but the many American books and periodicals in other languages largely remain undiscovered. The focus of this article is the period of the decades before and after 1900. After a discussion of the conditions for a multilingual American lite…
Studying Myself in the United States - Studying the United States in Myself
Becoming White in 1881
Research Article| July 01 2004 Becoming White in 1881: An Immigrant Acquires an American Identity Orm Øverland Orm Øverland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (4): 132–141. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501492 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Orm Øverland; Becoming White in 1881: An Immigrant Acquires an American Ident…
Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation
Book Review| January 01 2003 Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early Twentieth Century Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early Twentieth Century, Geneviève Fabre, Jürgen Heideking and Kai Dreisbach. Orm Øverland Orm Øverland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (2): 83–85. https…
Immigrant Minds, American Identities
Was Christopher Columbus a brave Jewish Marrano fleeing the Inquisition or a proud Italian Catholic serving Catholic Spain? In the South Bronx streets of my youth, the correct answer depended upon your neighborhood. The wrong answer got you a bloody nose. But why did Columbus's ethnic identity matter so much to first- and second-generation working-class Jewish and Italian newcomers over four hundred years after Columbus came ashore? Orm øverland,…
The Western Home
The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. Orm Øverland. Northfield, MN: Norwegian American Historical Association (distributed by University of Illinois Press), 1996. xii + 442 pages. $44.95. Get access The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. Orm Øverland. Northfield, MN: Norwegian American Historical Association (distributed by University of Illinois Press), 1996. xii + 442 pages. $44.95. Gert Buelens Gert Bue…
Mary O'Connell's 'Updike and the Patriarchal Dilemma
The Western Home
Journal Article The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. By Orm Øverland. (Northfield: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1996. xiv, 442 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-87732-085-3.) Get access I. Kenneth Smemo I. Kenneth Smemo Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1104–1105, https://…
Ethnicity on Parade
Journal Article Ethnicity on Parade: Inventing the Norwegian American through Celebration. By April R. Schultz. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. xvi, 156 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-87023-939-2.) Get access Orm Øverland Orm Øverland University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1616–1617, https://doi.org/10.2…
Higham
The Immigrant in America
Abramson's 'The Immigrant Experience in American Litterature
Mossberg
Immigrant experiences are central in that composite but simplified construct we often unreflectingly call the ,American Experience.<Consequently, immigration has long been an important chapter in American historiography, and we have excellent studies both of immigration in general and of particular groups.The writings of immigrants are an important source for any understanding of their experience, yet these writings do not yet belong to ))America…
Plutocrats and Socialists
recent contribution to our understanding both of American history and of the importance of making European source material available is Dirk Hoerder's. presentation of reports on the American labor movement by German diplomats and agents from the archives of both German republics. Apart from a 75 page edited version of a report prepared for the German Chancellor by a Professor Carl Abel after a visit to the US in 1893, the book presents extracts …
Ole Edvart Rølvaag and 'Giants in the Earth
Book Notes
Anna Katona's 'Hungarian Studies in English - Kate Chopin's 'The Storm and other Stories; with the Awakening'. Edited with an introduction by Per Seyersted - Marcus Raskin's 'Notes on the Old System: To Transform American Politics' - 'Letters from the Promis Land: Swedes in America 1840-1914' edited by H. Arnold Barton - Arnfinn Bruflot's 'Dei kom til Amerika' ("They came to America")
The Making and Meaning of an American Classic
Journal Article The making and meaning of an American classic: James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie. By Orm Overland. (New York: Humanities Press, 1973. 206 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.75.) Get access John P. McWilliams, Jr. John P. McWilliams, Jr. University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 1, June 1974, Pa…
Becoming White in 1881
Research Article| July 01 2004 Becoming White in 1881: An Immigrant Acquires an American Identity Orm Øverland Orm Øverland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (4): 132–141. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501492 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Orm Øverland; Becoming White in 1881: An Immigrant Acquires an American Ident…
Foreign Relations
People in the home countries of past and present immigrants to the United States are America's foreign relations. These relationships have created and continue to create, as Donna R. Gabaccia writes in the introduction to her new book, “transnational linkages created ‘from below’ by immigrants” (p. 1). She demonstrates how these “immigrant foreign relations” are related to American foreign policies “created ‘from above’ by the federal government”…
Ethnicity on Parade
Journal Article Ethnicity on Parade: Inventing the Norwegian American through Celebration. By April R. Schultz. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. xvi, 156 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-87023-939-2.) Get access Orm Øverland Orm Øverland University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1616–1617, https://doi.org/10.2…
The Inadequate Vehicle
"John Crowe Ransom's "Vaunting Oak
The Making and Meaning of an American Classic
Journal Article The making and meaning of an American classic: James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie. By Orm Overland. (New York: Humanities Press, 1973. 206 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.75.) Get access John P. McWilliams, Jr. John P. McWilliams, Jr. University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 1, June 1974, Pa…
Book Notes
Anna Katona's 'Hungarian Studies in English - Kate Chopin's 'The Storm and other Stories; with the Awakening'. Edited with an introduction by Per Seyersted - Marcus Raskin's 'Notes on the Old System: To Transform American Politics' - 'Letters from the Promis Land: Swedes in America 1840-1914' edited by H. Arnold Barton - Arnfinn Bruflot's 'Dei kom til Amerika' ("They came to America")
Ole Edvart Rølvaag and 'Giants in the Earth
Plutocrats and Socialists
recent contribution to our understanding both of American history and of the importance of making European source material available is Dirk Hoerder's. presentation of reports on the American labor movement by German diplomats and agents from the archives of both German republics. Apart from a 75 page edited version of a report prepared for the German Chancellor by a Professor Carl Abel after a visit to the US in 1893, the book presents extracts …
Mossberg
Immigrant experiences are central in that composite but simplified construct we often unreflectingly call the ,American Experience.<Consequently, immigration has long been an important chapter in American historiography, and we have excellent studies both of immigration in general and of particular groups.The writings of immigrants are an important source for any understanding of their experience, yet these writings do not yet belong to ))America…
The Immigrant in America
Abramson's 'The Immigrant Experience in American Litterature
Higham
Ethnicity on Parade
Journal Article Ethnicity on Parade: Inventing the Norwegian American through Celebration. By April R. Schultz. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. xvi, 156 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-87023-939-2.) Get access Orm Øverland Orm Øverland University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1616–1617, https://doi.org/10.2…
The Western Home
Journal Article The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. By Orm Øverland. (Northfield: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1996. xiv, 442 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-87732-085-3.) Get access I. Kenneth Smemo I. Kenneth Smemo Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1104–1105, https://…
Mary O'Connell's 'Updike and the Patriarchal Dilemma
The Western Home
The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. Orm Øverland. Northfield, MN: Norwegian American Historical Association (distributed by University of Illinois Press), 1996. xii + 442 pages. $44.95. Get access The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. Orm Øverland. Northfield, MN: Norwegian American Historical Association (distributed by University of Illinois Press), 1996. xii + 442 pages. $44.95. Gert Buelens Gert Bue…
Immigrant Minds, American Identities
Was Christopher Columbus a brave Jewish Marrano fleeing the Inquisition or a proud Italian Catholic serving Catholic Spain? In the South Bronx streets of my youth, the correct answer depended upon your neighborhood. The wrong answer got you a bloody nose. But why did Columbus's ethnic identity matter so much to first- and second-generation working-class Jewish and Italian newcomers over four hundred years after Columbus came ashore? Orm øverland,…
Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation
Book Review| January 01 2003 Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early Twentieth Century Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early Twentieth Century, Geneviève Fabre, Jürgen Heideking and Kai Dreisbach. Orm Øverland Orm Øverland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (2): 83–85. https…
Becoming White in 1881
Research Article| July 01 2004 Becoming White in 1881: An Immigrant Acquires an American Identity Orm Øverland Orm Øverland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (4): 132–141. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501492 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Orm Øverland; Becoming White in 1881: An Immigrant Acquires an American Ident…
Studying Myself in the United States - Studying the United States in Myself
Per Seyersted's Robert Cantwell
The many languages of American literature 1870-1930 Norwegian as an example
The preconceived notion that American literature is written in English has served to make American literature in other languages invisible. All too slowly, American literature in Spanish is coming into its own, but the many American books and periodicals in other languages largely remain undiscovered. The focus of this article is the period of the decades before and after 1900. After a discussion of the conditions for a multilingual American lite…
Norwegians on the Prairie
With our focus either on the urban or the rural, the in-between society of the country town has not been fully explored. One census criterion for “urban” is a population of at least 2,500. In common usage, however, a country town is not urban, nor has it been viewed as very attractive: the writers E. W. Howe (The Story of a Country Town, 1883) and Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, 1920) created the images many still have of country towns. In recent et…
Getting Started
A Talk at the Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Chair in American Literature at Uppsala University
Eric Dregni's In Cod We Trust
Karen V. Hansen's Encounter on the Great Plains
Foreign Relations
People in the home countries of past and present immigrants to the United States are America's foreign relations. These relationships have created and continue to create, as Donna R. Gabaccia writes in the introduction to her new book, “transnational linkages created ‘from below’ by immigrants” (p. 1). She demonstrates how these “immigrant foreign relations” are related to American foreign policies “created ‘from above’ by the federal government”…
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