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

• Main Authors: Catherine Padmore, Kelly Gardiner
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Uncategorized; biographical novels; biofiction; women’s fiction; Australian fiction; crime fiction; Crawford; Hannah; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26181/20469537.v1; https://figshare.com/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...