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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
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The autonomous child in Scandinavian children’s literature

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Article outline
  • Childhood in children’s literature
  • Young hermits in the woods
  • Robinsonade
  • A social democratic children’s literature?
  • Notes
  • Works cited
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