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 Nesbo, Hakan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid.

About the Author
ZOE 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

Reviews

'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, cliched, subversive and deeply uncomfortable.' - Lee Horsley

Book Information
ISBN 9780230308404
Author B. Astroem
Format Hardback
Page Count 219
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan