Ruth Hemstad, Jannicke S. Kaasa, Ellen Krefting and Aina Nøding (eds.), Literary Citizenship in Scandinavia in the Long Eighteenth Century (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023). xii+330 pp.

There is a tendency in some scholarly circles to consider Scandinavia, which geographically speaking is a peninsular pendant to continental Europe, as too far away and too far north to be counted -a cultural and political periphery. 1 The anthology Literary Citizenship in Scandinavia in the Long Eighteenth Century seeks to remedy this view.This book is a diverse volume of texts discussing the relationship between various Scandinavian readerships and literary texts to and from Scandinavia and the rest of Europe.In this anthology readers become acquainted with the transnational dissemination of religious and secular books, descriptions of demonic possessions, periodicals in Latin and vernacular Scandinavian languages, lecture notes, moral tales, libelous royal biographies, the Norwegian constitution of 1814, missionary stories for children, educational magazines, as well as censorship and press freedom in the Scandinavian countries in the 18 th and 19 th Century, and a new database of 18 th Century Norwegian book collections.The book's contributors are mostly Norwegian, but features a couple of Danes, the occasional Swede and one Englishman.The emphasis remains on the history of books and print culture in Denmark-Norway, with some expansion into and comparison with Sweden.As the editors explain in the introduction, one of the aims of the book is to 'expand opportunities for non-Scandinavian scholars to track the journeys of printed books, illustrations and news, and their social effects, further north' (4).