The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel
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USDThe Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.
- Shows how different critical approaches can enrich the study of Australian and other literatures
- Provides a history of the Australian novels and authors from colonial times to the present day
- Covers Australian literature from a wide range of critical approaches, including postcolonial, publishing studies, gender, environmental approaches, histories of immigration, nationalism and transnationalism
Reviews & endorsements
‘What are novels for? One answer would be that they are for academics to find interest in and make researchable and teachable … David Carter and his team have done a great job of showing how it’s done.’ Nicholas Jose, The Conversation
‘Highly recommended.’ T. Ware, CHOICE
‘Perhaps the true mark of a collection such as this is its enduring value to scholars and students … This collection successfully expands the known history of the Australian novel: from its serialised beginnings, stories of bushrangers, convicts and the gold rush now suddenly made known again, through to the current luminescent renaissance of Aboriginal literature and the ever-more kaleidoscopic tales of a migrant nation.’ Samuel Cox, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Product details
September 2023Hardback
9781316514856
750 pages
235 × 158 × 44 mm
1.18kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. The global invention of the Australian novel Paul Giles
- 2. Colonial adventure novels Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
- 3. Beyond Britain and the book: the nineteenth-century Australian novel unbound/ed Katherine Bode, Sarah Galletly and Carol Hetherington
- 4. Transnational optics: the late colonial fiction of Ada Cambridge and Catherine Martin Robert Dixon
- 5. The novel in the late colonial period: the book trade, readers and their cultural outlook Paul Eggert
- 6. Love is not enough: Australian romantic fiction from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century Hsu-Ming Teo
- 7. The Australian crime novel, 1830–1950 Rachel Franks
- 8. The novel nation: critical histories for the Australian novel, 1850s–1970s David Carter
- 9. Selling Australian stories to the world: the dynamics of twentieth century publishing Roger Osborne
- 10. Women Writers and the Emerging Urban Novel, 1930–1952 Meg Brayshaw
- 11. The National trilogy and mining Philip Mead
- 12. Nation and environment in the twentieth century novel Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
- 13. Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and the transnational fiction of provincial development Fiona Morrison
- 14. The mid-century Australian novel and the end of world history Elizabeth McMahon
- 15. Race, romance and anxiety: a history of mid-twentieth century commercial fiction Catriona Elder
- 16. Whiteness, aboriginality and representation in the twentieth century Australian novel Michael R. Griffiths
- 17. When the twain meet: the Australian novelist in Asia David Walker
- 18. From bunyip to boom: Australian fiction, 1955–1975 Paul Sharrad
- 19. Unsettling archive: suburbs in Australian fiction Brigid Rooney
- 20. The novel at arms: rereading Australian mid-century realism Nicole Moore
- 21. 'Our least-known best seller': Alan Yates and Australian pulp fiction Andrew Nette
- 22. Writing, women and the Australian novel Tanya Dalziell
- 23. White Lies: colonial mythology and the decolonial impasse in the award-winning novels of Roger McDonald, Kim Scott and Alex Miller Christopher Lee
- 24. The economics of the literary novel Emmett Stinson
- 25. Mabo, history, sovereignty: the contemporary postcolonial novel Geoff Rodoreda
- 26. Indigenous futurism Iva Polak
- 27. The regional novel in Australia Emily Potter and Brigid Magner
- 28. Children's and young adult literature Michelle J. Smith
- 29. Grunge, nation and literary generations: Christos Tsiolkas and genre Jessica Gildersleeve
- 30. The making of the Asian Australian novel Emily Zong
- 31. Screening the Australian novel, 1971–2020 Imelda Whelehan and Claire McCarthy
- 32. Australian fantasy, crime and romance fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Beth Driscoll and Kim Wilkins
- 33. Uncertain futures: climate fiction in Australian literature Jessica White
- 34. A (Sovereign) body of work: Australian indigenous literary culture and the literary fiction novel Eugenia Flynn
- 35. The novel road to the global south: Australian fiction, international exposure and the transnational politics of disadvantage Sascha Morrell
- 36. The fortunes of the miles franklin: Australian life in all its phases Nicholas Birns
- 37. The Arab-Australian novel: between Nation and Diaspora Jumana Bayeh
- 38. Riddling the nation: allegory in twenty-first century Australian fiction by women Maria Takolander
- 39. Migrant writing and the invention of Australia Lynda Ng.
