Thomasine Gyllembourg's Two Ages: A Novella

by Troy Wellington Smith (Editor), Troy Wellington Smith (Translator)

Overview

Although she is now overshadowed by Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard, Thomasine Gyllembourg was arguably the most popular prose fiction writer of the Danish Golden Age. Only known publicly as “The Author of ‘An Everyday Story’” (an anonym based on an early beloved work), Gyllembourg received high praise from Kierkegaard in A Literary Review (1846), a book-length study of her capstone novella, Two Ages (1845). With this original translation of Two Ages, readers of English can explore the novella’s influence on the socio-political philosophy of Kierkegaard’s Review, all while enjoying one of the literary masterpieces of Golden Age Denmark.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004716209
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/27/2025
Series:	Texts from Golden Age Denmark , #9
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Troy Wellington Smith is an independent scholar who received a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley in 2023. He has published several articles on Kierkegaard and other Danish Golden Age figures in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations

Introduction

Two Ages: A Novella—Thomasine Gyllembourg

The Author to the Reader

First Part: The Age of Revolution

Second Part: The Present Age

Explanatory Notes

The Account of the Text

Explanatory Notes

Bibliographies
Indexes
Previously Published Titles in the Series Danish Golden Age Studies and Texts from Golden Age Denmark