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In:Nordic Literature: A comparative history: Volume II: Figural nodes
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Nathaniel Kramer, Christopher Oscarson, Linda Haverty Rugg and Karin Sanders
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages 38] 2026
► pp. 298–313

Freethinkers and figures of faith in Nordic Literature of the nineteenth century

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Article outline
  • The sublimity of faith in a secular age
  • The freethinker and the withdrawal of faith
  • New modes of faith
  • Works cited
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