Rape in Stieg Larsson's millennium trilogy and beyond : contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone crime fiction

Introduction

Stieg Larsson's millennium trilogy: opening up the debate. "The girl who pays our salaries": rape and the bestselling millennium trilogy / Priscilla Walton

The millennium trilogy and the American serial killer narrative: investigating protagonists of men who write women / Barbara Fister

Lisbeth Salander as a melodramatic heroine: emotional conflicts, split focalization and changing roles in Scandinavian crime fiction / Yvonne Leffler

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 / Marla Harris

The body, hopelessness and nostalgia: representations of rape and the welfare state in Swedish crime fiction / Katarina Gregersdotter

Over her dismembered body: the crime fiction of Mo Hayder and Jo Nesbo / Berit Åstrom

Rewriting scripts: language, gender and violence in contemporary crime fiction. Disarticulated figures: language and sexual violence in contemporary crime fiction / Meghan 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 / Zoë Brigley-Thompson

Ethics, violence and adaptation. Rape and replay in Stieg Larsson, Liza Marklund and Val McDermid: on affect, ethics and feeling bad / Tanya Horeck

The girl with the dragon tattoo: rape, revenge and victimhood in cinematic translation / Claire Henry

"Hidden in the snow": female violence against the men who hate women in the millennium adaptations / Philippa Gates