Scandinavian Crime Fiction

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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Contemporary Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Paula Arvas and Andrew Nestingen
Part I: Revisions of the Socially Critical Genre Tradition
1. Dirty Harry in the Swedish Welfare State
Michael Tapper
2. The Well-Adjusted Cops of the New Millennium: Neo-Romantic Tendencies in the Swedish Police Procedural
Kerstin Bergman
3. Meaningless Icelanders: Icelandic Crime Fiction and Nationality
Katrin Jakobsdóttir
4. Digging into the Secrets of the Past: Rewriting History in the Modern Scandinavian Police Procedural
Karsten Wind Meyhoff
Part II: Questions of Place
5. The Place of Pessimism in Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander Series
Shane McCorristine
6. Gender and Geography in Contemporary Scandinavian Television Crime Fiction
Karen Klitgaard Povlsen
7. Straight Queers: Anne Holt’s Transnational Lesbian Detective Fiction
Ellen Rees
8. Next to the Final Frontier: Russians in Contemporary Finnish and Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Paula Arvas
Part III: Politics of Representation
9. Swedish Queens of Crime: the Art of Self-Promotion and the Notion of Feminine Agency—Liza Marklund and Camilla Läckberg
Sara Kärrholm
10. High Crime in Contemporary Scandinavian Literature—the Case of Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
Magnus Persson
11. Håkan Nesser and the Third Way: of Loneliness, Alibis, and Collateral Guilt
Sylvia Söderlind
12. Unnecessary Officers: Realism, Melodrama and Scandinavian Crime Fiction in Transition
Andrew Nestingen
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
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