Reflecting the Detectives: Crime Fiction and the New Journalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia

Abstract

Examines patterns in the relationship between newspaper accounts of sensational crimes and crime fiction published in the late 1880s.

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Published 1 May 2005 in Volume 22 No. 1. Subjects: Detective fiction, Intertextuality, Journalism, Narrative techniques.

Cite as: Weaver, Rachael. ‘Reflecting the Detectives: Crime Fiction and the New Journalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 2005, doi: 10.20314/als.3eceea20ee.