The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel

This book offers authoritative critical and historical study of the Australian novel from the colonial past to the present day.

David Carter (Edited by)

9781316514856, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 July 2023

750 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 4.4 cm, 1.18 kg

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.

1. The global invention of the Australian novel Paul Giles
2. Colonial adventure novels Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
3. Beyond Britain and the book: the nineteenth-century Australian novel unbound/ed Katherine Bode, Sarah Galletly and Carol Hetherington
4. Transnational optics: the late colonial fiction of Ada Cambridge and Catherine Martin Robert Dixon
5. The novel in the late colonial period: the book trade, readers and their cultural outlook Paul Eggert
6. Love is not enough: Australian romantic fiction from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century Hsu-Ming Teo
7. The Australian crime novel, 1830–1950 Rachel Franks
8. The novel nation: critical histories for the Australian novel, 1850s–1970s David Carter
9. Selling Australian stories to the world: the dynamics of twentieth century publishing Roger Osborne
10. Women Writers and the Emerging Urban Novel, 1930–1952 Meg Brayshaw
11. The National trilogy and mining Philip Mead
12. Nation and environment in the twentieth century novel Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
13. Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and the transnational fiction of provincial development Fiona Morrison
14. The mid-century Australian novel and the end of world history Elizabeth McMahon
15. Race, romance and anxiety: a history of mid-twentieth century commercial fiction Catriona Elder
16. Whiteness, aboriginality and representation in the twentieth century Australian novel Michael R. Griffiths
17. When the twain meet: the Australian novelist in Asia David Walker
18. From bunyip to boom: Australian fiction, 1955–1975 Paul Sharrad
19. Unsettling archive: suburbs in Australian fiction Brigid Rooney
20. The novel at arms: rereading Australian mid-century realism Nicole Moore
21. 'Our least-known best seller': Alan Yates and Australian pulp fiction Andrew Nette
22. Writing, women and the Australian novel Tanya Dalziell
23. White Lies: colonial mythology and the decolonial impasse in the award-winning novels of Roger McDonald, Kim Scott and Alex Miller Christopher Lee
24. The economics of the literary novel Emmett Stinson
25. Mabo, history, sovereignty: the contemporary postcolonial novel Geoff Rodoreda
26. Indigenous futurism Iva Polak
27. The regional novel in Australia Emily Potter and Brigid Magner
28. Children's and young adult literature Michelle J. Smith
29. Grunge, nation and literary generations: Christos Tsiolkas and genre Jessica Gildersleeve
30. The making of the Asian Australian novel Emily Zong
31. Screening the Australian novel, 1971–2020 Imelda Whelehan and Claire McCarthy
32. Australian fantasy, crime and romance fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Beth Driscoll and Kim Wilkins
33. Uncertain futures: climate fiction in Australian literature Jessica White
34. A (Sovereign) body of work: Australian indigenous literary culture and the literary fiction novel Eugenia Flynn
35. The novel road to the global south: Australian fiction, international exposure and the transnational politics of disadvantage Sascha Morrell
36. The fortunes of the miles franklin: Australian life in all its phases Nicholas Birns
37. The Arab-Australian novel: between Nation and Diaspora Jumana Bayeh
38. Riddling the nation: allegory in twenty-first century Australian fiction by women Maria Takolander
39. Migrant writing and the invention of Australia Lynda Ng.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]