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Investigating Arthur Upfield : a centenary collection of critical essays / edited by Kees de Hoog and Carol Hetherington.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Upfield, Arthur W. (Arthur William), 1890-1964--Criticism and interpretation.
- Upfield, Arthur W.
- Crime in literature.
- Detective and mystery stories, Australian--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, Australian.
- Australia--In literature.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arthur Upfield created Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) who features in twenty-nine novels written from the 1920s to the the 1960s, mostly set in the Australian Outback. He was the first Australian professional writer of crime detection novels. Upfield arrived in Australia from England on 4 November 1911, and this collection of twenty-two critical essays by academics and scholars has been published to celebrate the centenary of his arrival. The essays were all written after Upfi...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; ARTHUR UPFIELD; BONY AND THE COLOUR QUESTION; MURDER IN THE OUTBACK; BONY; UPFIELD; THE FRONTIER HEROISM OF ARTHUR W. UPFIELD; MYSTERY LITERATURE AND ETHNOGRAPHY; AUSTRALIAN TALES OF MYSTERY AND MISCEGENATION; WHODUNIT? AND WHERE? CRIME FICTION DOWN UNDER; HOME ON THE RANGE; FILLING "TERRA NULLIUS"; DETECTIVE AS OUTSIDER- OUTSIDER AS DETECTIVE; BONY AS GROTESQUE; PULP FICTION; THE FLEETING MOMENT AND THE AGELESS PAST; UPFIELD'S NAPOLEON BONAPARTE; UNCOVERING COLLECTIVE CRIMES; INSPECTING WOMEN; THE GENESIS OF BONY
- IN THEIR DIFFERENT WAYS, CLASSICSRE-ASSESSING ARTHUR W. UPFIELD'S NAPOLEON BONAPARTE DETECTIVE FICTION; BONY AT HOME AND ABROAD; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-272).
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-43645-0
- 1-4438-3495-5
- 9786613436450
- OCLC:
- 778314978
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