Genre fiction
Articles
- Along Gender Lines: Reassessing Relationships between Australian Novels, Gender and Genre from 1939 to 2006
Using AustLit database records, the author examines the number and proportion of Australian novels published from 1930 to 2006 by wo/men, the genre of these…
1 October 2009 - Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction
In The Merchants of Culture, John B. Thompson remarks on the difficulties of writing about a present-day industry, where its swift evolution renders any…
3 December 2018 - Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels
The contemporary digital publishing sphere is one of hybridity convergence and messiness as the affordances of digital self-publishing channels allow independent producers unconnected to established…
3 December 2018 - What is Australian Popular Fiction?
Australian popular fiction is the most significant growth area in Australian trade publishing since the turn of the twenty-first century yet it has received little…
3 December 2018 - The Ends of Empire: Australian Steampunk and the Reimagining of Euro-Modernity
The rise of steampunk – speculative-fiction works set in a Victorian or pseudo-Victorian world marked by steam-powered technology – has led to a range of…
3 December 2018 - 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
Contributors
- Katherine Bode
- Beth Driscoll
- Lisa Fletcher
- Geoffrey Hondroudakis
- Jodi McAlister
- Catriona Mills
- Claire Parnell
- Meg Vann
- Kim Wilkins