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The Cambridge history of Australian literature

2009

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Summary

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.

Record details

Main title:

The Cambridge history of Australian literature / edited by Peter Pierce.

Author:

Pierce, Peter, 1950-

Work:

The Cambridge history of Australian literature

Imprint:

Cambridge, [England] ; Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Collation:

x, 612 p. ; 25 cm.

Series title:

Cambridge history of literatureThe Cambridge history of literature

Notes:

Includes index.Bibliography p.568 - 584.

Shelving notes:

13836 1 19-08-2010 1 nevhar 19-08-2010 7

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, 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 -- Short story since 1950 -- Scribbling on the fringes: 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.

ISBN:

9780521881654 (hbk)

Dewey class:

A820.9820.9

LC class:

PR9614.3

Language:

English

Added title:

History of Australian literature

Subject:

Australian literature -- History and criticism