Per Eynert Seyersted (18 May 1921 – 3 April 2005) was a

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of American Literature at the American Institute at the

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. Seyersted was born in

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, Norway. He earned his master's degree at

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in 1959 and earned his doctoral degree (dr. philos.) in 1969 at the University of Oslo. He was internationally renowned for his monograph on 19th century novelist

Kate Chopin Kate Chopin (, also ; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century femini ...

. His last monograph was a study of the works of

Robert Cantwell Robert Emmett Cantwell (January 31, 1908 – December 8, 1978), known as Robert Cantwell, was a novelist and critic. His first novel, ''Laugh and Lie Down'' (1931) is an early example, twenty years before Jack Kerouac, of the American classic gen ...

. According to Professor of American Literature Per Winther, Seyersted’s book on Chopin became an important reference for the emergence of feminist literary criticism in the 1970s and 1980s and his work has been crucial in the rediscovery of Chopin."Minnetale over professor dr. philos. Per Eynert Seyersted" by Professor Per Winthe

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Select Publications

* ''Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography''. Baton Rouge:

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, 1969 * "Kate Chopin (1851–1904

" ''American Literary Realism'' (Spring 1970): 153-159. * "A Survey of Trends and Figures in Afro-American Fictio

" ''American Studies in Scandinavia'' 6 (1973–74): 67-86. * "The American Girl from Howells to Chopi

''Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik'' 13, no. 2 (1988): 183-192 * ""Who Do You Think You Are?’: Alice Munro and the Place of Origin." ''

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'' 24, no. 1 (1992): 17-23. * Toth, Emily and Per Seyersted, eds. ''Kate Chopin’s Private Papers.'' Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. * ''Robert Cantwell: An American 1930s Radical Writer and His Apostasy''. Introduction by Alan Wald. Oslo: Novus Press, 2004.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seyersted, Per 1921 births 2005 deaths Literary critics of English Feminist literature University of Oslo alumni Harvard University alumni Norwegian expatriates in the United States