Miss Julie (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: August Strindberg
- First Published: 1888
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Genres: Naturalistic literature, Drama
- Subjects: France or French people, Nineteenth century, Literature, Lawyers, Servants, Personality, Tragedy, Environment or environmental health, Sweden or Swedish people
- Locales: Sweden
Places Discussed
Country estate. Grand home of an unnamed Swedish count. A silent but prominent symbol of the unseen count’s authority in his manor house’s kitchen is a pair of his riding boots. Julie is his unmarried daughter of twenty-five, whose engagement has recently been broken off. With its community of tenant farmers, the estate could well lie near Stockholm, a region Strindberg knew well.
It is Midsummer Eve, an occasion for carousing by the rural population. In traditional Scandinavian culture, the shortest night of the year was an interstice in normal...
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