Crime fiction
Articles
- Review of Continent of Mystery: A Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction, by Stephen Knight
The last decade has seen an expansion of interest in Australian popular fiction, with work by Fiona Giles and others on romance, and Robert Dixon's…
1 May 1998 - In the Club: Australian Crime Fiction in the USA 1943-1954
Carol Hetherington investigates the inclusion of Australian authors in Doubleday’s Crime Club lists in the period 1943-1954. She argues ‘that the important common factor in…
1 October 2012 - Francis Adams: Realism and Sensation in the 1880s
The English-born traveller and writer Francis Adams, who was in Australia from 1884 to 1890, was a cultural activist and a conduit in both directions…
31 October 2015 - The Menace of Intimacy: Domestic Noir, Feminist Criminology, and Emily Maguire’s An Isolated Incident
Viewed through the lens of feminist criminology, how does the subgenre of domestic noir dramatise domestic violence through generic or subversive elements of craft? Drew…
3 December 2018 - ‘It’s Just Some Guy, Not a Monster’: Gendered Violence in Emily Maguire’s Recent Novels
Emily Maguire is a Sydney-based author who has written six novels, three non-fiction books and numerous articles on feminism, culture and literature. Her early novels…
28 October 2021