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Scandinavian Crime Fiction
About this book
With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter HÞeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1Â Scandinavian crime fiction and the welfare state
- 2 Welfare crime: Sjöwall and Wahlööâs Novel of a Crime
- 3Â The hardboiled social worker: Gunnar Staalesenâs Varg Veum
- 4Â Crime fiction in an age of crisis: Henning Mankellâs Faceless Killers and Stieg Larssonâs The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- 5Â Landscape and memory in the criminal periphery
- 6Â Criminal peripheries: Peter HĂžegâs Miss Smillaâs Feeling for Snow and Kerstin Ekmanâs Blackwater
- 7Â Investigating the family in the welfare state
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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