The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

Introduction Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral Responsibility

Jessica Gildersleeve

Section A: Literature in the Colony

Chapter 1 Expressing a New Civilisation: Authorship, Publishing and Reading in the 1890s

Roger Osborne

Chapter 2 The Redemption of the Larrikin at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Michelle J Smith

Chapter 3 The Metropolis or the Bush?

Megan Brown

Chapter 4 The Weeping Kangaroo

Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver

Section B: Early Twentieth-Century Australia

Chapter 5 The Reflective Moment: Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Australia

Susan Carson

Chapter 6 Among the Autumn Authors: Books and Writers in Interwar Australian Magazines

Sarah Galletly and Victoria Kuttainen

Chapter 7 'Caterpillars of the Commonwealth': Dangerous Books in Australia

Francesca Rendle-Short

Chapter 8 'Mad, Muddy, Mess of Eels': Modern Theatre and Patrick White's Sensuous Dramaturgy

Janet McDonald

Section C: Contemporary Australia

Chapter 9 'Are You With Me?' Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the 1970s

Julian Meyrick and Jenny Fewster

Chapter 10 Around 1988: Australian Literature, History and the Bicentenary

Eduardo Marks de Marques

Chapter 11 Politics and Contemporary Australian Fiction

Nicholas Birns

Chapter 12 Towards a New Direction in Contemporary Criticism: Cognitive Australian Literary Studies

Jean-Francois Vernay

Section D: Australian Literary Studies in the Public Sphere

Chapter 13 Literary Criticism in Australia

Emmett Stinson

Chapter 14 Obstetric Realism and Sacred Cows: Women Writers and Book Reviewing in Australia

Melinda Harvey and Julieanne Lamond

Chapter 15 Literary Prizes and the Public Sphere

Alexandra Dane

Chapter 16 Literary Media Entertainment: Author Stardom and the Public (Media) Sphere

Della Robinson

Chapter 17 Australian Literature in the University

Leigh Dale

Chapter 18 An Australian Ethics of Reading?

Maggie Nolan

Section E: Australian Literature and the World

Chapter 19 News from Australia: Global Modernism Studies and the Case of Australian Modernism

Melinda J Cooper

Chapter 20 Hijabi-Bodies and Sartorial Strategies

Devaleena Das

Chapter 21 Australian Literature in Asia: China and India

David Carter and Paul Sharrad

Chapter 22 Australian Writing about Asia

David Walker

Section F: Key Themes in Australian Writing

Chapter 23 Turning the Inside Out: Interiority and Australian Fiction

Peter D Mathews

Chapter 24 Gendering Australian Literature

Alison Bartlett

Chapter 25 'Silence is My Habitat': Judith Wright, Writing, and Deafness

Jessica White

Chapter 26 Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australian Literature

Daniel Hourigan

Chapter 27 Into the Urban Labyrinth: Helen Garner and the Drug Narrative

Nycole Prowse

Chapter 28 'Something New at Hand': Australian Literature and the Sacred

Lyn McCredden

Chapter 29 Animal Representative Presence: Problems and Potential in Recent Australian Fiction

Clare Archer-Lean

Chapter 30 Landscape (After Mabo)

Tony Hughes-d'Aeth

Chapter 31 'The Extraordinary Behind the Ordinary': A Brief History of Australian Suburban Literature

Nathanael O'Reilly

Chapter 32 Australian Literature and Everyday Life

Andrew McCann

Chapter 33 Emblematic Spaces: Postcoloniality and the Region

Stephanie Green

Section G: Genre in Australian Literary Studies

Chapter 34 Twenty-First-Century Australian Poetry

Sarah Holland-Batt and Ella Jeffery

Chapter 35 Life Writing and Conflict: Love Wins

Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas

Chapter 36 Reluctant Wandering: New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian Travel Writing

Kate Cantrell

Chapter 37 Australia's Long Relationship with Romance

Tanya Dalziell

Chapter 38 Magical Migrations: Australian Fairy Tale Traditions and Practices

Nike Sulway

Chapter 39 Shadows in Paradise: Australian Gothic

Gina Wisker

Chapter 40 Australian Television and Literary Criticism

Susan Lever

Chapter 41 Screen Adaptation and Australian Literature

Karina Aveyard