Part1: 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 2. Gulf of Finland temporalities: Petroculture, geopolitics, and Tove Jansson’s resonant island
3. Obstructed passages: Archipelagic thinking and planetary reach in Tomas Tranströmer’s Östersjöar 4. Writing the deluge: Drachmann and the 1872 Baltic Sea flood
Part2: 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
6. The industrialised North Sea: Introducing tough oil fiction
7. Rimbereid’s waterscapes: The North Sea viewed from Stavanger
8. Longing for what’s lost: Evolution, ecology, and multispecies entanglements in Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea 9. Mapping seascapes with Olav Duun’s novel Floodtide of Fate
Part3: Iceland Sea, Greenland Sea, and Arctic Sea
10. “Narrating the sea”: The journey to Iceland in travel narratives of the modern period
11. Plenty and peril: The sea in the sagas of Icelanders
12. Investigating the Arctic ecotone: The Arctic Ocean in Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
Part4: 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
14. Sexuality at sea: The challenge of entanglement in Amalie Skram’s Betrayed (1892)
15. The Atlantification of Faroese literature: An archipelagic reading of Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen’s Barbara 16. Atlantic crossings, departures, and returns in Marjam Indriss' Halvt
Part5: The Global Sea and the Undersea
17. “All the world was blue”: The sea in Isak Dinesen’s stories
18. How to read a wave: August Strindberg in the surf
19. “A Sea Without Direction”: The Deep in contemporary Icelandic literature
20. Risen from the foam: Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales as aquatic texts