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Scandinavian Crime Fiction by Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Scandinavian Crime Fiction about?

Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Introduction 12 Stockholm syndrome 12 Crime fiction for comfort junkies 14 A socio-.critical genre 18 A nostalgic genre 21 A global genre 25 1 Scandinavian crime fiction and the welfare state 28 Make good times better 28 Welfare urbanism 29 Noir consumers 34 ‘The harried welfare-man’: Anders Bodelsen’s Think of a Number 41 2 Welfare crime: Sjöwall and Wahlöö’s Novel of a Crime 50 3 The hardboiled social worker: Gunnar Staalesen’s Varg Veum 74 The Nordic social worker detective 76 Hardboiled sentimentalism 83 Urban crimes 85 Consumer crisis in paradise 88 4 Crime fiction in an age of crisis: Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers and Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 96 Foreigners in the welfare state: Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers 100 Financial crisis and trust capital in Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 111 Compromised detectives 121 5 Landscape and memory in the criminal periphery 124 Welfare nostalgia 126 The erased countryside: Henning Mankell’s Wallander 133 Voices from the peasant society: Arne Dahl’s The Blinded Man 138 The ghosts of history: John Ajvid

Who reads Scandinavian Crime Fiction?

Author

Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published

2017

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, History & Criticism, Humanities