Introduction

pp 1-6

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

1 - Britain’s Australia

pp 7-33

2 - The beginnings of literature in colonial Australia

pp 34-51

3 - Early writings by Indigenous Australians

pp 52-72

4 - Australian colonial poetry, 1788–1888: Claiming the future, restoring the past

pp 73-92

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

pp 93-117

6 - Romantic aftermaths

pp 118-136

FROM THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO 1950

7 - Australia’s Australia

pp 137-155

8 - The short story, 1890s to 1950

pp 156-179

9 - Australian drama, 1850–1950

pp 180-198

10 - ‘New words come tripping slowly’: Poetry, popular culture and modernity, 1890–1950

pp 199-222

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

pp 223-254

12 - Australia’s England, 1880–1950

pp 255-281

TRAVERSES

13 - Australian children’s literature

pp 282-302

14 - Representations of Asia

pp 303-322

15 - Autobiography

pp 323-343

16 - Riding on the ‘uncurl’d clouds’: The intersections of history and fiction

pp 344-359

FROM 1950 TO NEARLY NOW

17 - Publishing, patronage and cultural politics: Institutional changes in the field of Australian literature from 1950

pp 360-390

18 - Theatre from 1950

pp 391-418

19 - The short story since 1950

pp 419-451

20 - Scribbling on the fringes: Post-1950 Australian poetry

pp 452-472

21 - Groups and mavericks

pp 473-497

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

pp 498-516

23 - The novel, the implicated reader and Australian literary cultures, 1950–2008

pp 517-548

24 - Nation, literature, location

pp 549-567