Nordic Literature : A Comparative History. Volume I: Spatial Nodes.

Intro -- NORDIC LITERATURE: A COMPARATIVE HISTORY VOLUME I: SPATIAL NODES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- Preface -- General project introduction -- Is there such a place as Scandinavia? -- Language and region -- Region as an explanatory space -- The framework -- The concept of place -- Place and literature -- Place and region -- Scapes and practices -- The aim of the framework -- Scapes -- Landscapes -- Fourteenth century and on: Looking back from landscape -- Mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century: The emergence of landscape -- Nineteenth century: The dissemination of landscape -- Late nineteenth to early twentieth century: Inhabiting the landscape -- Twentieth century: Beneath, above, and beyond landscape -- Non-Nordic landscape -- Point of contact -- The domain of Bárður Snæfellsás -- Snæfellsjökull from afar -- Snæfellsjökull as medium -- A guide to Gurre, temporary landscape -- Utopias as territories of Swedish modernism -- Prelude: Two utopias in classic Scandinavian literature -- Urbs, the utopian global city of Ludvig Nordström -- The utopia of the planetary nomad of Harry Martinson -- The cosmic dystopia of Martinson -- The metachronic dystopia of Karin Boye -- Shipping: Heterotopias and the reterritorialization of modernism -- Jutland and the West Coast as liminal spaces in Danish literature -- Denmark's imagined geography -- Blicher's Jutland -- Hans Christian Andersen and the West Coast -- Goldschmidt: A Jewish writer's Danish travels -- On the point -- The disillusion of the Danish Dream -- The postcolonial West Coast -- "Far higher mountains" -- Ascent -- On the hill: The self and the landscape -- On the mountaintop: The self and the sublime -- Poems of homesickness and longing -- Songs about the homeland and national anthems -- Descent.

South of the South -- Hans Christian Andersen in the Grotta Azzurra -- Fersen: Decadent Capri -- Munthe: Capri paradise -- Paradise lost -- Waterscapes -- Medieval mapping: Landnámabók þeiri -- Baroque topography: Nordlands trompet -- Going inland: Finnish lakes -- Archipelagos and islands -- At sea -- Modernist techniques: Östersjöar -- The tale of a thousand lakes -- Lakes and other literary waterscapes -- What one can do with lakes in literature -- Lakes as national symbols -- Erotic tensions on the lake -- Spiritual lakes -- Rewriting lake scenes -- The island in Nordic literature -- Archipelago -- Emilie Flygare-Carlén's 'Rosen på Tistelön': Crime and punishment in the archipelago -- August Strindberg's 'I havsbandet': The creative intellect and its defeat -- John Ajvide Lindqvist's 'Människohamn': Loss, love, and faith -- Distance and threat: The city and the archipelago -- The archipelago as liminal space -- There must be a periphery -- Far away in the north: J. H. O. Djurhuus -- Dano-Faroese literature -- Paper boat in rough waters -- "Far out in an ocean" -- Gunnar Hoydal: A rooted cosmopolitan -- Conclusion -- The seven seas -- Sea histories -- Erasure and artistic archaeology -- Sea, ship, sailor -- Domestic life and maritime life -- Antagonism -- Compromise -- Re-enchantment -- Cityscapes -- The urban novel -- Cityscape as lightscape -- Cityscape as wordscape -- Beyond the Nordic cityscape -- Through the land of 'lagom' in literature -- "A charming and remarkable intermediate!" -- "A town under this town" -- "A kick that shattered the glass and broke the frame" -- "Though so like Paris…" -- "One of the most beautifully located small cities in Sweden" -- "What is a pane of glass in this world?" -- A city awakens -- The student novel -- The city walker -- Helsinki in the mist -- The Great Strike and the Viapori Rebellion.

A kaleidoscopic city novel -- Conclusion -- Walking the city -- The didactic traveler -- The journalist -- The revolutionary -- The spiritual wanderer -- The vagabond -- The bohemian -- The sexual woman -- The worker -- The 'flâneur' revisited -- The limits of the unlimited -- The history-accumulator -- The making of Berlin (1800-70) -- The modern metropolis: Berlin as a parvenu (1870/71-1914/18) -- Fascinating excesses, enchanting order (1914/18-1944) -- Cold wars (1945-89) -- Berlin as a 'lieu de mémoire' (1989/90-2010) -- Poets in New York -- City of sun and dreams -- Between anachronism and synchronism -- The howl from America -- City of the body -- Prose writers in New York -- Everything glitters -- Lightscapes -- Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1 -- "Sun came from the South" -- Contrasting domestic lightscapes -- Four types of lightscapes -- Religion and metaphysics (1500-1870) -- The celestial lightscape reaches the Earth -- Rhetoric and poetic creativity (1600 to the present) -- Self-promoting lightscapes -- Lightscapes of cognition (1750-1925) -- Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2 -- "I am longing for Italy" -- The new literary lightscape -- From the touristic gaze to the escapist illusion -- Individualized lightscapes -- Existential changes -- Escapist dreams -- Cosmologies -- The sea and the city -- Qualities of light -- Forest-light to field-light -- The presence of past light -- Shadow lands -- Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West -- Inner light -- The light of labor -- Regio Norwg-West, picts takat fra ofven -- Light -- Millenniumscapes -- New Nordic -- At the margins of the welfare state -- Beyond literary place -- Toxic places -- Place and the nation -- The atomic age and the vision of the global -- Chernobyl in the Nordic spatial imagination -- Toxicity and the lost pastoral.

Toxicity and a globalized sense of place -- Toxicity and invisible geographies -- Pollution and place -- This site is under construction -- Imagined communities and planned regions -- Negotiating national boundaries in the novel -- Bridging the binational binary -- The Øresund as global nexus -- Øresund noir: Bron/Broen -- The ephemerality of the region -- Epilogue -- Cathartic moments or spatial liberty -- Fiction -- Gameplay -- 'Hamlet' revisited -- Caterpillar and self-reference -- Playability: Closing remarks -- Introduction -- Settling -- "And the two shall become one flesh" -- Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literature -- Emigration and immigration narratives -- Contemporary migrant literature -- Conclusion -- Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authors -- Dwelling -- Dwelling as captivity -- The rise of children's literature -- Rural dwelling and the rise of tourism -- Seasonal secondary dwellings -- Acknowledgements -- "Worker ants on the lush bosom of Earth" -- Well-ordered households and daily routines -- Hard life and bohemian lifestyle in small cabins -- Separation from agrarian time-space -- Contemporary nostalgia for the agrarian way of life -- By land, by sea, by air, by mind -- "Tehkös liitto, lintuseni" / Let us strike a bargain, little bird -- "Flyttfåglarne" / Birds of passage -- Ruoktu Váimmus / Trekways of the Wind -- "Tid: en sång om Trojas murar" / Time: A song about the walls of Troy -- Conclusion -- Exploring -- Explorers of the Grand Tour -- The literary Arctic -- Portraying the journey to the pole -- Nansen's Greenland expedition -- The polar avant garde -- Explorers as authors -- Hybrid genres -- Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak Dinesen -- Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity -- Northern bound -- Sacralizing -- Landscapes of power.

Sacralized space in Nordic oral literature -- The literary uses of liminal space -- The rise of nationalism -- Multiethnic challenges -- Postcolonial Challenges -- Niðaróss cathedral -- Nation and sacrifice -- Søren Kierkegaard's 'Frygt og Bæven' -- Henrik Ibsen's 'Brand' -- Dag Solstad's 'Armand V.': Fotnoter til en uutgravd roman -- Kirsten Hammann's 'En dråbe i havet' -- Legend and liminality -- Liminality -- Worlding -- Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River -- De-framing the indigenous body -- Embracing "the mongrel" -- Landscape, memory, and culture -- Re-framing/De-framing the colonial representation -- "Arctic hysteria" -- Family albums -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Works cited -- Location index -- Person index.

This volume devotes its attention to the changing literary figurations of space by Nordic writers from medieval to contemporary times. The productive historical contingency of the "North" as a literary space becomes clear in this close analysis of its literary texts and practices.

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