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The Cambridge History of Australian Literature

Pierce, Peter
ISBN-10: 052188165X
ISBN-13: 9780521881654

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The Cambridge History of Australian Literature is the most comprehensive volume ever written on Australia's national literature. It spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, encompassing 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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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


Edition: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Trade Cloth
Pages: 624
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.49 lbs.
Language: English

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