Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond: Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crim

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; T.Horeck , K.Gregersdotter B.Åström 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 Håkan 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 Nesbø; B.Åström 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