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Focusing on the sexualized violence of Stieg Larsson´s bestselling Millennium trilogy - including the novels, Swedish film adaptations, and Hollywood blockbusters - this collection of essays puts Larsson´s work into dialogue with Scandinavian and Anglophone crime novels by writers including Jo Nesb›, H†kan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid.

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; T.Horeck , K.Gregersdotter B.�ström PART I: STIEG LARSSON´S MILLENNIUM TRILOGY: OPENING UP THE DEBATE ´The Girl Who Pays Our Salaries´: Rape and the Bestselling Millennium Trilogy; P.Walton The Millennium Trilogy and the American Serial Killer Narrative: Investigating Protagonists of Men Who Write Women; B.Fister Lisbeth Salander as a Melodramatic Heroine: Emotional Conflicts, Split Focalization and Changing Roles in Scandinavian Crime Fiction; Y.Leffler PART II: DISMEMBERED BODIES, WOUNDED STATES: GENDER POLITICS IN THE MILLENNIUM TRILOGY AND BEYOND Rape and the Avenging Female in Stieg Larsson´s Millennium Trilogy and H†kan Nesser´s Woman with Birthmark and The Inspector and Silence; M.Harris The Body, Hopelessness and Nostalgia: Representations of Rape and the Welfare State in Swedish Crime Fiction; K.Gregersdotter Over Her Dismembered Body: the Crime Fiction of Mo Hayder and Jo Nesb›; B.�ström PART III: REWRITING SCRIPTS: LANGUAGE, GENDER AND VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY CRIME FICTION Disarticulated Figures: Language and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Crime Fiction; M.Freeman Male Fantasy, Sexual Exploitation and the Femme Fatale: Reframing Scripts of Power and Gender in Neo-Noir Novels by Sara Paretsky, Megan Abbott and Stieg Larsson; Z.Brigley-Thompson PART IV: ETHICS, VIOLENCE AND ADAPTATION Rape and Replay in Stieg Larsson, Liza Marklund and Val McDermid: On Affect, Ethics and Feeling Bad; T.Horeck The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo : Rape, Revenge and Victimhood in Cinematic Translation; C.Henry ´Hidden in the Snow´: Female Violence against the Men Who Hate Women in the Millennium Adaptations; P.Gates Index

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´This is an excellent addition to the growing body of critical literature dealing with cross-cultural developments in crime fiction. Larsson is a controversial writer, and one of the real strengths of this collection is the way it showcases critical debate about some of the most difficult aspects of contemporary crime fiction - its representation of sexual violence; its underlying socio-political agendas and its moral-ethical substance; and the ways in which audiences respond to a genre that is by turns conventional, clichéd, subversive and deeply uncomfortable.´ - Lee Horsley

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ZOÓ BRIGLEY-THOMPSON Lecturer in English and Creative Writing BARBARA FISTER Academic librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, USA MEGHAN FREEMAN Assistant professor in the Department of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA PHILIPPA GATES Associate Professor in Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada MARLA HARRIS Independent scholar with a PhD from Brandeis University CLAIRE HENRY PhD candidate in the English, Film and Media department at Anglia Ruskin University, UK YVONNE LEFFLER Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden PRISCILLA WALTON Professor of English at Carleton University in Canada

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