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Draws on scholarship from leading figures in the field and spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society.

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English
Pages
612

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The Cambridge history of Australian literature
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge [England], Port Melbourne, Vic

Table of Contents

From European imaginings of Australia to the end of the colonial period
Britain's Australia
Beginnings of literature in colonial Australia
Early writings by indigenous Australians
Australian colonial poetry, 1788-1888: claiming the future, restoring the past
No place for a book? Fiction in Australia to 1890
Romantic aftermaths
From the late nineteenth century to 1950
Australia's Australia
Short story, 1890's to 1950
Australian drama, 1850-1950
Poetry, popular culture and modernity, 1890-1950
Australian fiction and the world republic of letters, 1890-1950
Australia's England, 1880-1950
Traverses
Australian children's literature
Representations of Asia
Autobiography
Intersections of history and fiction
From 1950 to nearly now
Publishing, patronage and cultural politics, institutional changes in the field of Australian literature from 1950's
Theatre from 1950
Short story since 1950
Post - 1950 Australian poetry
Groups and mavericks
Challenge of the novel: Australian fiction since 1950
Novel, the implicated reader and Australian literature cultures, 1950-2008
Nation, literature, location.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 568-584) and index.

Series
Cambridge history of literature
Other Titles
Australian literature

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
A820.9
Library of Congress
PR9604.6 .C36 2009, PR9604.6, PR9604.3 .C36 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 612 p. ;
Number of pages
612

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24019022M
Internet Archive
cambridgehistory0000unse_h9l7
ISBN 13
9780521881654
LCCN
2009674568
OCLC/WorldCat
430497769

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