Australian crime fiction: a 200-year history

"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 go...

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1. Verfasser: Knight, Stephen 1940- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:"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"
Beschreibung:"THis is an newly-written and heavily updated edition of 'Continent of mystery: a thematic history of crime fiction'"
Beschreibung:ix, 301 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9781476670867

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