1. List of contributors; 2. List of figures; 3. Preface; 4. General project introduction (by Sondrup, Steven P.); 5. The framework: Spatial nodes (by Ringgaard, Dan); 6. Scapes; 7. Landscapes (by Ringgaard, Dan); 8. Point of contact: The intricacies of Snaefellsjokull (by Eysteinsson, Astradur); 9. A guide to gurre, temporary landscape (by Rosiek, Jan); 10. Utopias as territories of Swedish modernism (by Briens, Sylvain); 11. Jutland and the west coast as liminal spaces in Danish literature (by Behschnitt, Wolfgang); 12. "Far higher mountains": Mountains in Danish and Norwegian romantic poetry (by Monster, Louise); 13. South of the South: Literary capri (by Melberg, Arne); 14. Waterscapes (by Ringgaard, Dan); 15. The tale of a thousand lakes (by Lyytikainen, Pirjo); 16. The Island in Nordic literature (by Waerp, Lisbeth P.); 17. Archipelago (by Johnsson, Henrik); 18. There must be a periphery (by Moberg, Bergur Ronne); 19. The seven seas: Maritime modernity in Nordic literature (by Frank, Soren); 20. Cityscapes (by Ringgaard, Dan); 21. Through the land oflagomin literature: Passing small towns in middle Sweden (by Bondesson, Anna Smedberg); 22. A city awakens: Literary Helsinki at the turn of the twentieth century (by Ameel, Lieven); 23. Walking the city: Female pedestrians (by Selboe, Tone); 24. The limits of the unlimited: Gunnar Bjorling's wordscape (by Olsson, Anders); 25. The history-accumulator: Berlin as a foreign metropolis (by Mohnike, Thomas); 26. Poets in New York (by Mai, Anne-Marie); 27. Lightscapes (by Ringgaard, Dan); 28. Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1: The imaginary elsewhere (by Larsen, Svend Erik); 29. Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2: The geographic elsewhere (by Larsen, Svend Erik); 30. Qualities of light: Interfacing lightscapes in Eino Leino, Hella Wuolijoki, and Arvid Morne (by Ahlback, Pia Maria); 31. Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West: From inner light to the light of labor (by Andersen, Per Thomas); 32. Millenniumscapes (by Ringgaard, Dan); 33. Toxic places: Chernobyl and a sense of place in Nordic literature (by Oscarson, Christopher); 34. This site is under construction: Mediating the Oresund region around the millennium (by Thomson, C. Claire); 35. Cathartic moments or spatial liberty: Variations of the interplay between fiction, play, and place in computer games (by Walther, Bo Kampmann); 36. Practices; 37. Introduction: Practices of place (by DuBois, Thomas A.); 38. Settling (by DuBois, Thomas A.); 39. "And the two shall become one flesh": Forging familial ties to the new land in Nordic-American immigrant literature (by Allen, Julie K.); 40. Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literature (by Kongslien, Ingeborg); 41. Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authors (by DuBois, Thomas A.); 42. Dwelling (by DuBois, Thomas A.); 43. Seasonal secondary dwellings (by Rees, Ellen); 44. "Worker ants on the lush bosom of Earth": Cyclic patterns of life in the Finnish countryside (by Kaunonen, Leena); 45. By Land, by Sea, by Air, by Mind: Traversing externally internally via the trope of the bird in Finnish and Swedish poetry (by Moody, Kjerstin); 46. Exploring (by DuBois, Thomas A.); 47. The literary arctic (by Waerp, Henning Howlid); 48. Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak Dinesen (by Brantly, Susan C.); 49. Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity: Hans Christian Andersen (by Sanders, Karin); 50. Northern bound: Exploring and colonizing the Nordic Far North (by DuBois, Thomas A.); 51. Sacralizing (by DuBois, Thomas A.); 52. Nidaross cathedral (by Sondrup, Steven P.); 53. Nation and sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac in modern Scandinavian literature (by Oxfeldt, Elisabeth); 54. Legend and liminality (by Tangherlini, Timothy); 55. Liminality: The uncanny bog (by Sanders, Karin); 56. Worlding (by Storfjell, Troy); 57. Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River: Sami salmon harvesters, tourist anglers, and the negotiation of place (by Frandy, Tim); 58. De-framing the indigenous body: Ethnography, landscape, and cultural belonging in the art of Pia Arke (by Thisted, Kirsten); 59. Works cited

Nordic Literature: A comparative history. Volume I: Spatial nodes makes a powerful argument not only for the importance of Nordic literature to comparative literary studies as a whole, but also for the high-caliber, comparative Nordic literary scholarship that experts in the field are producing today.