| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1: Earliest Stories to the First World War, 1818-1914; 1.1 Beginnings: Convicts and Bushrangers; 1.2. Settler and Squatter Crime Fiction; 1.3. Goldfields Crime Stories; 1.4. Remembering the Criminal Past; 1.5. City Mysteries; 1.6. Turn of the Century Crime Fiction; Section 2: Across and Between Two Wars, 1915-1945; 2.1. Male Authors; 2.2. Female Authors; 2.3. Overseas and Touristic Crime Fiction; Section 3: Towards Independence, 1946-1979; 3.1. The American Private-Eye Model; 3.2. Other Male Authors; 3.3. Female Authors |
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3.4. Other VoicesSection 4: Australia Stands Alone, 1980-1999; 4.2. Private Investigators: Female; 4.3. Police: Male; 4.4. Police: Female; 4.5. The Crime Novel; 4.6. Amateur Detectives; 4.7. Psychothrillers; 4.8. Indigenous Crime Fiction; 4.9. Historical Crime Fiction; 4.10. Other Voices; Section 5: Patterns of the Present, 2000-2017; 5.1. Private Investigators: Male; 5.2. Private Investigators: Female; 5.3. Police: Male; 5.4. Police: Female; 5.5. The Crime Novel; 5.6. Amateur Detectives; 5.7. Psychothrillers; 5.8. Indigenous Crime Fiction; 5.9. Historical Crime Fiction; 5.10. Other Voices |
| Summary |
"Australian crime fiction grew 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 the wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 25, 2018) |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, Australian -- History and criticism
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Crime in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Crime in literature
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Detective and mystery stories, Australian
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476632667 |
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1476632669 |
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