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Author:   Stephen Knight
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9781476670867

ISBN 10:   1476670862
Pages:   311
Publication Date:   28 June 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments deleteix 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 3.4. Other Voices Section 4: Australia Stands Alone, 1980–1999 4.1. Private Investigators: Male 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 Bibliography (by Sections) Index

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This revised edition of Stephen Knight's study of Australian crime fiction first published 21 years ago is right up to the minute...he provides a sweeping, highly informed, academic but eminently readable look at the genre that he argues was long ignored at home due to a combination of traditional canonical assumptions in academia and restrictive publishing deals. - Steven Carroll, The Age

"""This revised edition of Stephen Knight's study of Australian crime fiction first published 21 years ago is right up to the minute...he provides a sweeping, highly informed, academic but eminently readable look at the genre that he argues was long ignored at home due to a combination of traditional canonical assumptions in academia and restrictive publishing deals."" - Steven Carroll, The Age"

Author Information

Stephen Knight is a well-known authority on crime fiction and literature through the ages. He has worked at universities in Australia, England and Wales and is a research professor in literature at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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