Sold by the millions : Australia's bestsellers
Title:
Sold by the millions : Australia's bestsellers
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Toni Johnson-Woods and Amit Sarwal.
Publication Information:
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 220 pages)
ISBN:
9781443835985
9781283436694
Abstract:
Australian genre fiction writers have successfully exploited the Australian landscape and peoples and as a result their books are today ""sold by the millions"" across boundaries. They have created stories that are imaginative, visionary, and diverse. They.
Local Note:
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Genre:
Contents:
Two centuries of popular Australian fiction / Toni Johnson-Woods -- From British domination to multinational conglomeration? : a revised history of Australian novel publishing, 1950 to 2007 / Katherine Bode -- Britishness and Australian popular fiction : from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries / Hsu-Ming Teo -- Heart strings and hip pocket : Garth Nix's writings for children, young adults and adults / Alice Mills -- The wide brown land and the big smoke : the setting of Australian popular romance / Juliet Flesch -- Issues of class and gender in Australian crime fiction : from the 1950s to today / Rachel Franks -- The Australian horror novel since 1950 / James Doig -- The fiction of the future : Australian science fiction / Russell Blackford -- Crikey it's bromance : a history of Australian pulp westerns / Toni Johnson-Woods -- The cultural economy of the Australian comic book industry, 1950-1985 / Kevin Patrick -- Armchair tourism : the popularity of Australian travel writing / Richard White -- Available to the millions : sports writing in Australia / Bernard Whimpress.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.