Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Professor with Special Responsibilities in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literature (2008), The New Human in Literature: Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society (2013), and the editor of several volumes, including World Literature: A Reader (2012) and The Posthuman Condition: Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Biotechnological Challenges (2012). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and an advisory board member of the Institute for World Literature.Dan Ringgaard is Professor in Scandinavian Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark.

A well-written and excellently researched volume, which grants nuanced insights into canonical Danish literature, making a fascinating read for students and scholars alike.

• Introduction: Danish Literature as World LiteratureDan Ringgaard and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)1. History of the Danes: Saxo the Grammarian and Saxo the Rune MasterPernille Hermann (Aarhus University, Denmark)2. Travelling Ballads: The Dissemination of Danish Medieval Ballads in Germany and Britain, 1760s to 1830sLis Møller (Aarhus University, Denmark)3. Ludvig Holberg: A Man of Transition in the 18th Century Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) 4. A Man of the World: Hans Christian Andersen Karin Sanders (University of California, Berkeley, USA)5. Straight into the Bliss of Knowing: Søren Kierkegaard's Influence on Franz KafkaIsak Winkel Holm (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)6. Modern Denmark: Brandes - Jacobsen - BangAnnegret Heitmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)7. Towards a New World: Johannes V. Jensen and Henrik Pontoppidan Jon Helt Haarder (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)8. Out of Africa, into World LiteratureLasse Horne Kjældgaard (Roskilde University, Denmark)9. Breaking New Ground – Danish Poets in the Intersection Between Modernism and PostmodernismAnne-Marie Mai (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)10. 'A Faithful, Attentive, Tireless Following': Cultural Mobility, Crime Fiction, and Television DramaC. Claire Thomson and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London, UK)BibliographyIndex