https://www.ouvroir.fr/deshima/index.php?id=678 In this article, I seek to understand what the North, and more specifically Sweden, represents for the reader of the 1880s by highlighting various references to the Northern imaginary in a novel by Anne Charlotte Leffler, En sommarsaga (1886). My hypothesis is that Leffler, through folklore, does not intend to describe a real geographic territory, but rather an imaginary geography fabricated throughout the novel. Indeed, it is around the themes of nature, folklore and women’s emancipation that the North takes form through the heroine’s dreams of her homeland after spending many years in Italy. Using the outside look of the stranger, therefore, Leffler creates both a novel of feminine questioning and a poetic journey through which the author describes the mysterious landscapes of the Swedish summer and creates a new space, in which Utopias are not only allowed, but also put to the test of reality. Finally, the imagination of the North seems to be a means for the heroine to understand her own situation and her desire for emancipation. Numéros en texte intégral Géographies et imaginaires Géographies et imaginaires fr mer., 01 oct. 2025 11:12:55 +0200 mer., 03 déc. 2025 10:57:16 +0100 https://www.ouvroir.fr/deshima/index.php?id=678 0