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Born: Established: Mar 2003 Perth, Western Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 2006
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1 6 y separately published work icon Babes in the Bush : The Making of an Australian Image Kim Torney , Fremantle : Curtin University Books , 2005 Z1210483 2005 single work criticism
1 5 y separately published work icon Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks : An Interrogation of Crime Fiction Catherine Cole , Fremantle : Curtin University Books , 2004 Z1170645 2004 single work criticism Written in the first person through the eyes of a crime writer, this is a fresh exploration of the ideas and theories that underpin crime fiction.
1 14 y separately published work icon City Bushman : Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination Christopher Lee , Fremantle : Curtin University Books , 2004 Z1167150 2004 single work criticism From publisher's blurb: 'Chris Lee maps the route of Lawson's celebrity - the variety of uses to which his name and reputation have been put. He identifies a pervasive tension between the popular and the cultured, the amateur and the professional, the local and metropolitan. While Australians call upon Henry Lawson in the name of a united nation, those calls have always been troubled by social, cultural and political disagreements.'
1 11 y separately published work icon From Australia with Love : A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels Juliet Flesch , Fremantle : Curtin University Books , 2004 Z1124009 2004 single work criticism

From publisher's blurb: 'It is an extraordinary phenomenon of the twentieth century that, even though it is estimated that a romance novel is purchased every few seconds in the English-speaking world alone, romance writers and their readers - if not ignored completely - are denigrated by journalists, literary critics and feminists alike.

In From Australia with Love, Juliet Flesch sets out to reclaim this popular genre for its readers - and its writers - and in doing so she reflects more strongly than has been done before the perspective of the Australian reader. From Australia with Love is the first serious, book-length study of Australian romance fiction from 1950 to 2000.

The purpose of this book is not to examine the literary qualities of the Australian romance novel but to show that the blanket condemnation of Australia's most far-reaching literary product stigmatises and simplifies, sight unseen, a complex and varied phenomenon.'
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