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'The 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.' (Publication summary)
Contents
- The Global Invention of the Australian Novel, single work criticism
- Colonial Adventure Novels, single work criticism
- Beyond Britain and the Book : the Nineteenth-century Australian Novel Unbound/ed, single work criticism
- Transnational Optics : The Late Colonial Fiction of Ada Cambridge and Catherine Martin, single work criticism
- The Novel in the Late Colonial Period : The Book Trade, Readers and Their Cultural Outlook, single work criticism
- Love Is Not Enough : Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century, single work criticism
- The Australian Crime Novel, 1830-1950, single work criticism
- The Novel Nation : Critical Histories for the Australian Novel, 1850s-1970s, single work criticism
- Selling Australian Stories to the World : The Dynamics of Twentieth Century Publishing, single work criticism
- Women Writers and the Emerging Urban Novel, 1930-1952, single work criticism
- The National Trilogy and Mining, single work criticism
- Nation and Environment in the Twentieth Century Novel, single work criticism
- Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and the Transnational Fiction of Provincial Development /, single work criticism
- The Mid-century Australian Novel and the End of World History, single work criticism
- Race, Romance and Anxiety : A History of Mid-twentieth Century Commercial Fiction, single work criticism
- Whiteness, Aboriginality and Representation in the Twentieth Century Australian Novel, single work criticism
- When the Twain Meet : The Australian Novelist in Asia, single work criticism
- From Bunyip to Boom : Australian Fiction, 1955-1975, single work criticism
- Unsettling Archive : Suburbs in Australian Fiction, single work criticism
- The Novel at Arms : Rereading Australian Mid-century Realism, single work criticism
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‘How Is the Great Australian Novel Going?’ Not Too Bad, Thanks
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 November 2023;
— Review of The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023 anthology reference criticism'“How is The Great Australian Novel going?” asks a character in Thea Astley’s The Well Dressed Explorer, a Miles Franklin Literary Award winner in 1962.'
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‘How Is the Great Australian Novel Going?’ Not Too Bad, Thanks
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 November 2023;
— Review of The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023 anthology reference criticism'“How is The Great Australian Novel going?” asks a character in Thea Astley’s The Well Dressed Explorer, a Miles Franklin Literary Award winner in 1962.'
