Australian Crime Fiction
Australian Crime Fiction

Author: Stephen Knight

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1476670862

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Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction, including Fergus Hume's 1887 international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. The 1980s saw a surge of private-eye thrillers, popular in a society skeptical of police. Twenty-first century authors have focused on policemen--and increasingly policewomen--and finally indigenous crime narratives. The author explores in detail this rich but little known national subgenre.

The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel

Author: David Carter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 826

ISBN-13: 1009093207

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The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.

Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand
Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand

Author: Faye H. Christenberry

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-11-19

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0810877457

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This book is a research guide to the literatures of Australia and New Zealand. It contains references to many different types of resources, paying special attention to the unique challenges inherent in conducting research on the literatures of these two distinct but closely connected countries.

White Without Soap
White Without Soap

Author: Marguerita Stephens

Publisher: UoM Custom Book Centre

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0980759420

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Explores the connections between nineteenth century imperial anthropology, racial 'science' and the imposition of colonising governance on the Aborigines of Port Phillip/Victoria between 1835 and 1888.