Nordic Gothic
1st Edition
Published on 5. February 2020
224 pages
978-1-5261-2644-3 (ISBN)
Description
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. -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
8 black & white illustrations
8 black & white illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-2644-3 (9781526126443)
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Maria Holmgren Troy | Johan Hoglund | Yvonne Leffler
Nordic Gothic
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07/2022
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Nordic Gothic
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Persons
Maria Holmgren Troy is Professor of English at Karlstad University
Johan Hoeglund is Professor of English at Linnaeus University
Yvonne Leffler is Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Gothenburg
Sofia Wijkmark is Reader in Comparative Literature at Karlstad University -- .
Johan Hoeglund is Professor of English at Linnaeus University
Yvonne Leffler is Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Gothenburg
Sofia Wijkmark is Reader in Comparative Literature at Karlstad University -- .
Content
List of figures
Introduction
1 The past that haunts the present: the rise of Nordic Gothic - Yvonne Leffler & Johan Hoeglund
2 Two Nordic Gothic icons: Hans Christian Andersen and Selma Lagerloef - Maria Holmgren Troy & Sofia Wijkmark
3 Swedish Gothic and the demise of the welfare state - Sofia Wijkmark
4 Nordic Gothic crime: places and spaces in Johan Theorin's OEland quartet series - Yvonne Leffler
5 'The Chosen Ones': Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg's teenage witch trilogy - Maria Holmgren Troy
6 Nordic troll Gothic - Sofia Wijkmark
7 Indigenous hauntings: Nordic Gothic and colonialism - Johan Hoeglund
8 Lost (and gained) in translation: Nordic Gothic and transcultural adaptation - Maria Holmgren Troy
9 Nordic Gothic new media - Johan Hoeglund
Appendix: Nordic Gothic fiction
Bibliography
Index -- .
Introduction
1 The past that haunts the present: the rise of Nordic Gothic - Yvonne Leffler & Johan Hoeglund
2 Two Nordic Gothic icons: Hans Christian Andersen and Selma Lagerloef - Maria Holmgren Troy & Sofia Wijkmark
3 Swedish Gothic and the demise of the welfare state - Sofia Wijkmark
4 Nordic Gothic crime: places and spaces in Johan Theorin's OEland quartet series - Yvonne Leffler
5 'The Chosen Ones': Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg's teenage witch trilogy - Maria Holmgren Troy
6 Nordic troll Gothic - Sofia Wijkmark
7 Indigenous hauntings: Nordic Gothic and colonialism - Johan Hoeglund
8 Lost (and gained) in translation: Nordic Gothic and transcultural adaptation - Maria Holmgren Troy
9 Nordic Gothic new media - Johan Hoeglund
Appendix: Nordic Gothic fiction
Bibliography
Index -- .
