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SVEN OLOV LINDHOLM AND THE LITERARY INSPIRATIONS OF SWEDISH FASCISM

cam.issuedOnline2018-08-28
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dc.contributor.authorKunkeler, Celestine S
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-16T00:31:28Z
dc.date.available2018-11-16T00:31:28Z
dc.date.issued2019-01
dc.description.abstractVery little research has been done into the leader of the most prominent Swedish fascist party of the interwar period, the leader of the Nationalsocialistiska Arbetarepartiet, Sven Olov Lindholm, in spite of extensive source material in his personal archive. This article explores the literary influences on his politics, which Lindholm cited in his private documents and interviews, both contemporary and post-war. The immediate impact of notable Swedish writers, poets especially, such as Verner von Heidenstam, Viktor Rydberg, Esaias Tegnér, and Bertel Gripenberg, is demonstrated. These authors, largely of the Swedish Romantic tradition, are shown to be parts of one major Scandinavian cultural current in particular, namely Gothicism (göticism), manifested through a centuries-long interest in the Old Nordic heritage. In Sweden, the influence of new far-Right ideas that made their way into the country in the 1920s intersected with Gothicism in unique ways, which gave Swedish fascists a peculiar relationship to both fascism and their national heritage. Ultimately, these literary Gothicist influences allowed a particular naturalizing codification of Swedish fascism in the 1930s. Under the influence of, above all, contemporary Finno-Swedish health specialist Are Waerland, Lindholm is shown to have actively shaped Swedish fascism in line with his literary exemplars.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.32526
dc.identifier.eissn1502-7716
dc.identifier.issn0346-8755
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285156
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherInforma UK Limited
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2018.1501419
dc.subjectfascism
dc.subjectSven Olov Lindholm
dc.subjectGothicism
dc.titleSVEN OLOV LINDHOLM AND THE LITERARY INSPIRATIONS OF SWEDISH FASCISM
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-07-25
prism.endingPage102
prism.issueIdentifier1
prism.publicationDate2019
prism.publicationNameScandinavian Journal of History
prism.startingPage77
prism.volume44
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-01
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
rioxxterms.versionAM
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1080/03468755.2018.1501419

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