The Sea in Nordic Literature Oceanic Criticism and Blue Humanities

Part 1: The Baltic Sea

1. The sea as an empty space in early modern literature: Johan Månsson's Sea-Book about Seafaring on the Baltic Sea
Joachim Grage

2. Gulf of Finland temporalities: Petroculture, geopolitics, and Tove Jansson’s resonant island
Pia Ahlbäck and Mia Österlund

3. Obstructed passages: Archipelagic thinking and planetary reach in Tomas Tranströmer’s Östersjöar
Dan Ringgaard

4. Writing the deluge: Drachmann and the 1872 Baltic Sea flood
Søren Frank

Part 2: The Wadden Sea, the North Sea, and the Norwegian Sea

5. Coastal writing: The Wadden Sea in the works of Steen Steensen Blicher, Peter Seeberg, and Dorthe Nors
Anders Ehlers Dam

6. The industrialised North Sea: Introducing tough oil fiction
Karl-Emil Rosenbæk Reetz

7. Rimbereid’s waterscapes: The North Sea viewed from Stavanger
Brandon Kaaz

8. Longing for what’s lost: Evolution, ecology, and multispecies entanglements in Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea
Frederike Felcht

9. Mapping seascapes with Olav Duun’s novel Floodtide of Fate
Sissel Furuseth

Part 3: Iceland Sea, Greenland Sea, and Arctic Sea

10. “Narrating the sea”: The journey to Iceland in travel narratives of the modern period
Alessia Bauer

11. Plenty and peril: The sea in the sagas of Icelanders
Annette Lassen

12. Investigating the Arctic ecotone: The Arctic Ocean in Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
Hanna Eglinger

Part 4: The Atlantic Ocean

13. The “Troll whale” demystified in the North Atlantic in the early modern period: From Olaus Magnus’ map to the witchcraft trials
Ronny Spaans and Liv Helene Willumsen

14. Sexuality at sea: The challenge of entanglement in Amalie Skram’s Betrayed (1892)
Christine Hamm

15. The Atlantification of Faroese literature: An archipelagic reading of Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen’s Barbara
Bergur Rønne Moberg

16. Atlantic crossings, departures, and returns in Marjam Indriss' Halvt

Lill Ann Körber and Hanna Rinderle

Part 5: The Global Sea and the Undersea

17. “All the world was blue”: The sea in Isak Dinesen’s stories
Annegret Heitmann

18. How to read a wave: August Strindberg in the surf
Sylvain Briens

19. “A Sea Without Direction”: The Deep in contemporary Icelandic literature
Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir

20. Risen from the foam: Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales as aquatic texts
Klaus Müller-Wille

Biography

Frederike Felcht is Professor of Scandinavian Literature and Culture at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her current research focuses on literature and the environment and on poverty in Scandinavian literature.

Søren Frank is Professor of Nordic Literature at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on ocean and coastal literatures, blue humanities, and the Anthropocene.

Katie Ritson is Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Scandinavian Studies at Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich. Her research interests include ecocriticism and environmental humanities, the North Sea and its coast in literature, and energy and literature.