The Scandinavian Moment in World Literature, 2017

In the last part of the 19th century, a considerable Norwegian and Scandinavian literature emerged and by the turn of the century the main contributions to this literature had already become world literature. One part of the project (by Narve Fulsås and Tore Rem) focuses on Henrik Ibsen and the prerequisites for a peripheral author to advance to world literary status in such a short period of time. In the subproject "Book market and Reading", PhD researchers Maria Purtoft and Henning Hansen examine who were the readers of the modern breakthrough literature in Norway, Denmark and Sweden and what were the reasons for the significant growth in the Scandinavian book market from the 1870s.