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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hetherington, Carol

Titel

Bony at Home and Abroad: The Arthur Upfield Phenomenon

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature : JASAL, 2009-01, p.1

Ort / Verlag

Sydney: Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The books also appeared in omnibus editions marketed by subscription book clubs such as the Unicorn Mystery Book Club and the Detective Book Club; these contained works by other notable crime writers like Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon (creator of Maigret) and Sax Rohmer (creator of Fu Manchu). [...]relatively few English language paperback editions were released in Upfield's life-time - five in the prestigious green and white English Penguin editions between 1949 and 1962 (Upfield was the first living Australian author to be published in Penguin)6, one in a New American Library edition in 1948 and eight in the US Berkley Medallion Books series in 1963 and 1964, shortly before or just after Upfield's death in 1964. The Upfield 'phenomenon' has all the characteristics Gelder identifies as central to 'the logics and practices' of this literary field, including the prime importance of the investigator, the serialisation of this figure through a number of works regularly produced, the 'generic endorsement' of the product by other practitioners in the field, and the generation of 'cultural capital' through the growth of a 'para-academic' apparatus of magazines and sites devoted to the author or genre. Since many Germans have migrated into Australia, the demand for German books is steadily increasing and thus you will find German editions of your novels, too, in Australian bookshops.'