The Cambridge History of Australian Literature

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-x

• Introduction by Peter Pierce
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• pp. 1-6

FROM EUROPEAN IMAGININGS OF AUSTRALIA TO THE END OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD

• 1 - Britain’s Australia by Ken Stewart
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• pp. 7-33

• 2 - The beginnings of literature in colonial Australia by Elizabeth Webby
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• pp. 34-51

• 3 - Early writings by Indigenous Australians by Penny Van Toorn
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• pp. 52-72

• 4 - Australian colonial poetry, 1788–1888: Claiming the future, restoring the past by Vivian Smith
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• pp. 73-92

• 5 - No place for a book? Fiction in Australia to 1890 by Tanya Dalziell
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• pp. 93-117

• 6 - Romantic aftermaths by Richard Lansdown
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• pp. 118-136

FROM THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO 1950

• 7 - Australia’s Australia by Peter Pierce
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• pp. 137-155

• 8 - The short story, 1890s to 1950 by Bruce Bennett
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• pp. 156-179

• 9 - Australian drama, 1850–1950 by Peter Fitzpatrick
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• pp. 180-198

• 10 - ‘New words come tripping slowly’: Poetry, popular culture and modernity, 1890–1950 by Peter Kirkpatrick
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• pp. 199-222

• 11 - Australian fiction and the world republic of letters, 1890–1950 by Robert Dixon
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• pp. 223-254

• 12 - Australia’s England, 1880–1950 by Peter Morton
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• pp. 255-281

TRAVERSES

• 13 - Australian children’s literature by Clare Bradford
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• pp. 282-302

• 14 - Representations of Asia by Robin Gerster
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• pp. 303-322

• 15 - Autobiography by David McCooey
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• pp. 323-343

• 16 - Riding on the ‘uncurl’d clouds’: The intersections of history and fiction by Brian Matthews
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• pp. 344-359

FROM 1950 TO NEARLY NOW

• 17 - Publishing, patronage and cultural politics: Institutional changes in the field of Australian literature from 1950 by David Carter
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• pp. 360-390

• 18 - Theatre from 1950 by Katharine Brisbane
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• pp. 391-418

• 19 - The short story since 1950 by Stephen Torre
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• pp. 419-451

• 20 - Scribbling on the fringes: Post-1950 Australian poetry by Dennis Haskell
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• pp. 452-472

• 21 - Groups and mavericks by John Kinsella
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• pp. 473-497

• 22 - The challenge of the novel: Australian fiction since 1950 by Susan Lever
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• pp. 498-516

• 23 - The novel, the implicated reader and Australian literary cultures, 1950–2008 by Richard Nile and Jason Ensor
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• pp. 517-548

• 24 - Nation, literature, location by Philip Mead
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• pp. 549-567

• Select bibliography
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• pp. 568-584

• Index
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• pp. 585-612