The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel / Nicholas Birns, Louis Klee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birns, Nicholas, author.

Klee, Louis, author.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge Companions to Literature

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and demonstrate what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.

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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Mar 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009083409 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.