Gender and the gaze in Anne Charlotte Leffler's "En bal i 'societeten'". From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: Wilkinson, Lynn R. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

IN ANNE CHARLOTTE LEFFLER'S novella "En bal i 'societeten'" ["A Ball in 'Society'"], the seventeen-year-old daughter of a cabinet minister makes her debut at a lavish dance in the family's new apartment in Stockholm. Her father, only recently appointed to his post as cabinet minister, has organized the affair in the hopes that his daughter will attract a husband who will advance his own career. Arla, who has been raised by a pietist mother, knows little of the ways of the world, a...

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