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

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Australian literature -- History and criticism.

From European imaginings of Australia to the end of the colonial period

1. Britain's Australia

2. Beginnings of literature in colonial Australia

3. Early writings by indigenous Australians

4. Australian colonial poetry, 1788-1888 : claiming the future, restoring the past

5. No place for a book? Fiction in Australia to 1890

6. Romantic aftermaths

From the late nineteenth century to 1950

7. Australia's Australia

8. The short story, 1890's to 1950

9. Australian drama, 1850-1950

10. New worlds come tripping slowly : poetry, popular culture and modernity, 1890-1950

11. Australian fiction and the world republic of letters, 1890-1950

12. Australia's England, 1880-1950

Traverses

13. Australian children's literature

14. Representations of Asia

15. Autobiography

16. Intersections of history and fiction

From 1950 to nearly now

17. Publishing, patronage and cultural politics : institutional changes in the field of Australian literature from 1950's

18. Theatre from 1950

19. The short story since 1950

20. scribbling on the fringes : post - 1950 Australian poetry

21. Groups and mavericks

22. The challenge of the novel : Australian fiction since 1950

24. The novel, the implicated reader and Australian literary cultures, 1950-2008

24. Nation, literature, location.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521881654

x, 612 p. ; 25 cm