The Cambridge history of Australian literature
By: edited by Peter Pierce.
Contributors: Pierce, Peter, 1950-
Series: Cambridge history of literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; Port Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780521881654
Subjects: Australian literature -- History and criticism
Other titles: Australian literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 568-584) and index.
Table of contents: title: From European imaginings of Australia to the end of the colonial period; title: Britain's Australia; title: Beginnings of literature in colonial Australia; title: Early writings by indigenous Australians; title: Australian colonial poetry, 1788-1888: claiming the future, restoring the past; title: No place for a book? Fiction in Australia to 1890; title: Romantic aftermaths; title: From the late nineteenth century to 1950; title: Australia's Australia; title: Short story, 1890's to 1950; title: Australian drama, 1850-1950; title: Poetry, popular culture and modernity, 1890-1950; title: Australian fiction and the world republic of letters, 1890-1950; title: Australia's England, 1880-1950; title: Traverses; title: Australian children's literature; title: Representations of Asia; title: Autobiography; title: Intersections of history and fiction; title: From 1950 to nearly now; title: Publishing, patronage and cultural politics, institutional changes in the field of Australian literature from 1950's; title: Theatre from 1950; title: Short story since 1950; title: Post - 1950 Australian poetry; title: Groups and mavericks; title: Challenge of the novel: Australian fiction since 1950; title: Novel, the implicated reader and Australian literature cultures, 1950-2008; title: Nation, literature, location.