The Not-Quite Child was made possible in part by grants from the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Support for this research was provided by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

The publication of this book was also supported by the Louis Janus Book Subvention awarded by the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.

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