Doing justice: Gender, genre and crime in recent historical biofictions from Australia ...

• Main Authors: Padmore, Catherine, Gardiner, Kelly
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: La Trobe 2022
• Subjects: Language, communication and culture; Literary studies; Crawford; Hannah; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26181/20469537; https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/journal_contribution/Doing_justice_Gender_genre_and_crime_in_recent_historical_biofictions_from_Australia/20469537

In this essay we analyse three recent historical novels from Australia that take as their focus figures who transcend normative gender boundaries in some way, either through their possible criminal activity and/or their sexuality or gender identity: Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (2013), about Agnes Mag...