Cambridge History of Australian Literature

Name: Cambridge History of Australian Literature
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ISBN: 9780521881654

ISBN-10: 052188165X

ISBN-13: 9780521881654

Edition: 2009

Authors: Peter Pierce

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Book details

List price: $168.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/17/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 624
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English



List of contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction



From European Imaginings of Australia to the End of the Colonial Period



Britain's Australia




The 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




The short story, 1890s to 1950




Australian drama, 1850–1950




‘New words come tripping slowly’: 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




Riding on the‘uncurl'd clouds’: The 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




Theatre from 1950




The short story since 1950




Scribbling on the fringes: Post-1950 Australian poetry




Groups and mavericks




The challenge of the novel: Australian fiction since 1950




The novel, the implicated reader and Australian literary cultures, 1950–2008




Nation, literature, location



Select bibliography


Index