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Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.
Maria Holmgren Troy is Professor of English at Karlstad UniversityJohan Höglund is Professor of English at Linnaeus UniversityYvonne Leffler is Professor of Comparative Literature at University of GothenburgSofia Wijkmark is Reader in Comparative Literature at Karlstad University
List of figuresIntroduction1 The past that haunts the present: the rise of Nordic Gothic - Yvonne Leffler & Johan Höglund2 Two Nordic Gothic icons: Hans Christian Andersen and Selma Lagerlöf - Maria Holmgren Troy & Sofia Wijkmark3 Swedish Gothic and the demise of the welfare state - Sofia Wijkmark4 Nordic Gothic crime: places and spaces in Johan Theorin's Öland quartet series - Yvonne Leffler5 ‘The Chosen Ones’: Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg's teenage witch trilogy - Maria Holmgren Troy6 Nordic troll Gothic - Sofia Wijkmark7 Indigenous hauntings: Nordic Gothic and colonialism - Johan Höglund8 Lost (and gained) in translation: Nordic Gothic and transcultural adaptation - Maria Holmgren Troy9 Nordic Gothic new media - Johan HöglundAppendix: Nordic Gothic fictionBibliographyIndex