ideologies and by academic demands; an overview of religious theatre as confessional literature in Sweden, describing its content and function in the society of the time; an examination of the development of the literacy of commoners in Finland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, where the reading of religious texts played a crucial role; and finally a chapter on the importance of pietism for the development of the modern self in Finland, and how its ideas were spread in translations and new works in Finnish. Taken together, the authors of the volume thus manage to treat a wide number of interesting and relevant perspectives. A common denominator for all of them is that they demonstrate the flagrant transnational character of Swedish and Finnish book history and book market in the period under investigation. The wide range of angles also gives a hint on how rich the soil is where the digging has now started again. We can only hope that this book will have many successors. As in all anthologies, we meet here contributions of varying quality and scholarly depth. In addition, some of them are seemingly mostly summaries of discussions already made by the same author in other publications. Some articles, however, do break new ground with thoughts and ideas that have not been formulated before concerning Swedish book history of the period. In the articles of Otfried Czaika and Kajsa Weber, just to mention two of them, we meet discussions founded on modern theory (Assmann and Genette respectively) that help us gain new insights and open up new research areas because of new observations. Nevertheless, both are still firmly relying on traditional bibliography. Personally, I cannot but agree with and appreciate that both of them, as well as some other authors, also express and stress the demands for renewed bibliographical efforts in Sweden, in order to bridge the gap to the early twentieth century in that area.

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书评：费德里科·芬切尔斯坦的法西斯谎言简史

意识形态和学术要求；瑞典宗教戏剧作为忏悔文学的概述，描述了它在当时社会中的内容和功能；对 17 至 19 世纪芬兰平民识字能力的发展进行了考察，其中宗教文本的阅读发挥了至关重要的作用；最后是关于虔诚主义对芬兰现代自我发展的重要性的一章，以及它的思想是如何在芬兰语的翻译和新作品中传播的。总之，该卷的作者因此设法处理了大量有趣和相关的观点。它们的一个共同点是，它们在调查期间展示了瑞典和芬兰图书历史和图书市场的公然跨国特征。广泛的角度也暗示了现在重新开始挖掘的土壤有多丰富。我们只能希望这本书会有很多后继者。与所有选集一样，我们在这里遇到不同质量和学术深度的贡献。此外，其中一些似乎主要是同一作者在其他出版物中已经进行的讨论的摘要。然而，一些文章确实开辟了新天地，提出了关于这一时期瑞典书籍历史的思想和观点。在 Otfried Czaika 和 Kajsa Weber 的文章中，仅提及其中两个，我们遇到了基于现代理论（分别为 Assmann 和 Genette）的讨论，这些讨论有助于我们获得新的见解并开辟新的研究领域，因为新的观察。尽管如此，两者仍然坚定地依赖于传统的书目。