LEADER 03029nam 22005891 450 001 9910149556703321 005 20171106090227.0 010 $a9781350001121 010 $a1350001120 010 $a9781472522139 010 $a1472522133 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350001121 035 $a(CKB)3710000000933855 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4733967 035 $a(OCoLC)962305425 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09261943 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9781350001121BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000933855 100 $a20180619d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aScandinavian crime fiction /$fJakob Stougaard-Nielsen 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages) 225 0 $a21st century genre fiction 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9781472527745 311 08$a1472527747 311 08$a9781472522757 311 08$a1472522753 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Welfare State -- Welfare Crime: Sjo?wall and Wahlo?o?'s Novel of a Crime -- The Hardboiled Social Worker: Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum -- Crime Fiction in an Age of Crisis: Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers and Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Landscape and Memory in the Criminal Periphery -- Criminal Peripheries: Peter Høeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow and Kerstin Ekman's Blackwater -- Investigating the Family in the Welfare State -- Conclusion. 330 $a"With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Henning Mankell's Wallander books and TV series such as The Killing. Including guides to further reading and online resources to help readers explore the genre for themselves, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$a21st century genre fiction series. 606 $aCrime in literature 606 $aDetective and mystery stories, Scandinavian$xHistory and criticism 606 $aScandinavian fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $2Literary studies: general 615 0$aCrime in literature. 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories, Scandinavian$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aScandinavian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a839/.5 700 $aStougaard-Nielsen$b Jakob$01208702 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149556703321 996 $aScandinavian crime fiction$92788702 997 $aUNINA