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The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction

Author : Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0522858988

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The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction by Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver Pdf

From the editors of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction comes this fascinating collection of disturbing mysteries and gruesome tales by authors such as Mary Fortune, James Skipp Borlase, Guy Boothby, Francis Adams, Ernest Favenc, 'Rolf Boldrewood' and Norman Lindsay, among many others. In the bush and the tropics, the goldfields and the city streets, colonial Australia is a troubling, bewildering place and almost impossible to regulate—even for the most vigilant detective. Ex-convicts, bushrangers, ruthless gold prospectors, impostors, thieves and murderers flow through the stories that make up this collection, challenging the nascent forces of colonial law and order. The landscape itself seems to stimulate criminal activity, where identities change at will and people suddenly disappear without a trace. The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction is a remarkable anthology that taps into the fears and anxieties of colonial Australian life.

The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction

Author : Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0522854222

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The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction by Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver Pdf

Grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate an unforgiving landscape that is the stuff of nightmares. These compelling stories are the dark underside to the usual story of colonial progress, promise and nation-building, and reveal the gothic imagination that lies at the heart of Australian fiction. This anthology collects the best examples of colonial Australian gothic short stories by authors such as Marcus Clarke, Hume Nisbet, Henry Lawson and Katherine Susannah Prichard, among others.

The Anthology of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction

Author : Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780522858617

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The Anthology of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction by Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver Pdf

Marauding bushrangers, lost explorers, mad shepherds, new chums and mounted troopers: these are some of the characters who populate the often perilous world of colonial Australian adventure fiction. Squatters defend their hard-earned properties from attack, while floods and other natural disasters threaten to wipe any trace of settlement away. Colonial Australian adventure fiction takes its characters on a journey into remote and unfamiliar territory, often in pursuit of wealth and well-being. But these journeys are invariably fraught with danger, and everything comes at a price. This anthology collects the best examples of colonial Australian adventure fiction, with stories by Ernest Favenc, Louis Becke, Rosa Praed, Guy Boothby, and many others. Also available in this series: The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction

The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction

Author : Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0522859593

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The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction by Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver Pdf

The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction collects captivating stories of love and passion, longing and regret. In these tales women arriving in the New World make decisions about relationships and marriage, social conventions, finances and career—and even the future of the nation itself. The 'slim and graceful' Australian girl becomes a new character type: independent, self-possessed and full of promise. These stories also show women gaining experience about the world, and the men, around them. They are put to the test by a new life and a new place. And not every relationship works out well. The best of colonial Australian romance fiction is collected in this anthology, from writers such as Ada Cambridge, Rosa Praed, Francis Adams, Henry Lawson, Mura Leigh and many others.

Colonial Australian Fiction

Author : Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743324615

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Colonial Australian Fiction by Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver Pdf

Over the course of the nineteenth century a remarkable array of types appeared – and disappeared – in Australian literature: the swagman, the larrikin, the colonial detective, the bushranger, the “currency lass”, the squatter, and more. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies’ developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social and economic circumstances of life in the colonies. In Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver explore the genres in which these characters flourished: the squatter novel, the bushranger adventure, colonial detective stories, the swagman’s yarn, the Australian girl’s romance. Authors as diverse as Catherine Helen Spence, Rosa Praed, Henry Kingsley, Anthony Trollope, Henry Lawson, Miles Franklin, Barbara Baynton, Rolf Boldrewood, Mary Fortune and Marcus Clarke were fascinated by colonial character types, and brought them vibrantly to life. As this book shows, colonial Australian character types are fluid, contradictory and often unpredictable. When we look closely, they have the potential to challenge our assumptions about fiction, genre and national identity. The preliminary pages and introduction to this work are available free to download at the Sydney eScholarship Repository: https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16435 Contents Introduction: The Colonial Economy and the Production of Colonial Character Types 1 The Reign of the Squatter 2 Bushrangers 3 Colonial Australian Detectives 4 Bush Types and Metropolitan Types 5 The Australian Girl Works Cited Index About the series The Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series publishes original, peer-reviewed research in the field of Australian literature. The series comprises monographs devoted to the works of major authors and themed collections of essays about current issues in the field of Australian literary studies. The series offers well-researched and engagingly written re-evaluations of the nature and importance of Australian literature, and aims to reinvigorate its study both in Australia and internationally.

The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology

Author : Nathan Ashman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000984514

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The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology by Nathan Ashman Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism. Across 33 innovative chapters from leading international scholars, this Handbook considers an emergent field of contemporary crime narratives that are actively responding to a diverse assemblage of global environmental concerns, whilst also opening up ‘classic’ crime fictions and writers to new ecocritical perspectives. Rigorously engaged with cutting-edge critical trends, it places the familiar staples of crime fiction scholarship – from thematic to formal approaches – in conversation with a number of urgent ecological theories and ideas, covering subjects such as environmental security, environmental justice, slow violence, ecofeminism and animal studies. The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is an essential introduction to this new and dynamic research field for both students and scholars alike.

Murder in a Few Words

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476641713

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Murder in a Few Words by Charlotte Beyer Pdf

The clue-puzzle, legal thriller, and classic whodunit are just a few of the subgenres within the widely popular crime fiction genre. However, despite its popularity among readers, the crime short story genre has yet to be fully explored by scholars. This book offers a deep-dive into crime short stories written by a wide range of authors, tracing the history and evolution of the crime short story. The book offers an accessible and original examination of crime short stories, focusing on compelling themes such as miscarriage of justice, feminism, environmental crime and toxic masculinity.

Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930

Author : Melissa Edmundson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319769172

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Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930 by Melissa Edmundson Pdf

This book explores women writers’ involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on women’s experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book investigates how women writers appropriated the Gothic genre—and its emphasis on fear, isolation, troubled identity, racial otherness, and sexual deviancy—in order to take these anxieties into the farthest realms of the British Empire. The chapters show how Gothic themes told from a woman’s perspective emerge in unique ways when set in the different colonial regions that comprise the scope of this book: Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Edmundson argues that women’s Colonial Gothic writing tends to be more critical of imperialism, and thereby more subversive, than that of their male counterparts. This book will be of interest to students and academics interested in women’s writing, the Gothic, and colonial studies.

Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand

Author : Tamara S Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317317401

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Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand by Tamara S Wagner Pdf

Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores attitudes to colonialism, imperialism and race, as well as important developments in girlhood and the concept of the New Woman.

The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel

Author : David Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009093200

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The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel by David Carter Pdf

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.

Women Writing Crime Fiction, 1860-1880

Author : Kate Watson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786491179

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Women Writing Crime Fiction, 1860-1880 by Kate Watson Pdf

Arthur Conan Doyle has long been considered the greatest writer of crime fiction, and the gender bias of the genre has foregrounded William Godwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and Fergus Hume. But earlier and significant contributions were being made by women in Britain, the United States and Australia between 1860 and 1880, a period that was central to the development of the genre. This work focuses on women writers of this genre and these years, including Catherine Crowe, Caroline Clive, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry (Ellen) Wood, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Louisa May Alcott, Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, Anna Katharine Green, Celeste de Chabrillan, "Oline Keese" (Caroline Woolmer Leakey), Eliza Winstanley, Ellen Davitt, and Mary Helena Fortune--innovators who set a high standard for women writers to follow.

New Directions in Popular Fiction

Author : Ken Gelder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137523464

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New Directions in Popular Fiction by Ken Gelder Pdf

This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus. It looks into the histories of popular genres such as the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction, Whitechapel Gothic novels, the British spy thriller, Japanese mysteries, the 'new weird', fantasy, girl hero action novels and Quebecois science fiction. It also examines the production, reproduction and distribution of popular fiction as it carves out space for itself in transnational marketplaces and across different media entertainment systems; and it discusses the careers of popular authors and the various investments in popular fiction by readers and fans. This book will be indispensable for anyone with a serious interest in this prolific but highly distinctive literary field.

The Killing Words

Author : Crime Writers of South Australia Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Detective and mystery stories, Australian
ISBN : 0646538861

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The Killing Words by Crime Writers of South Australia Staff Pdf

"17 stories of murder, mystery and misadventure"--Back cover.

Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration

Author : Tamara S Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317002178

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Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration by Tamara S Wagner Pdf

In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways. Wagner highlights the hitherto unexplored subgenre of anti-emigration writing that emerged as an important counter-current to a pervasive emigration propaganda machine that was pressing popular fiction into its service. The exportation of characters at the end of a novel indisputably formed a convenient narrative solution that at once mirrored and exaggerated public policies about so-called 'superfluous' or 'redundant' parts of society. Yet the very convenience of such pat endings was increasingly called into question. New starts overseas might not be so easily realizable; emigration destinations failed to live up to the inflated promises of pro-emigration rhetoric; the 'unwanted' might make a surprising reappearance. Wagner juxtaposes representations of emigration in the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Frances Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge with Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian settler fiction by Elizabeth Murray, Clara Cheeseman, and Susanna Moodie, offering a new literary history not just of nineteenth-century migration, but also of transoceanic exchanges and genre formation.

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

Author : C. Clarke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230390546

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Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock by C. Clarke Pdf

This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.