The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral Responsibility -- Section A: Literature in the Colony -- 1 Expressing a New Civilisation: Authorship, Publishing, and Reading in the 1890s -- 2 The Redemption of the Larrikin at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 3 The Metropolis or the Bush? -- 4 The Weeping Kangaroo -- Section B: Early Twentieth-Century Australia -- 5 The Reflective Moment: Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Australia -- 6 Among the Autumn Authors: Books and Writers in Interwar Australian Magazines -- 7 'Caterpillars of the Commonwealth': Dangerous Books in Australia -- 8 'Mad, Muddy, Mess of Eels': Modern Theatre and Patrick White's Sensuous Dramaturgy -- Section C: Contemporary Australia -- 9 'Are You With Me?' Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the 1970s -- 10 Around 1988: Australian Literature, History, and the Bicentenary -- 11 Politics and Contemporary Australian Fiction -- 12 Towards a New Direction in Contemporary Criticism: Cognitive Australian Literary Studies -- Section D: Australian Literary Studies in the Public Sphere -- 13 Literary Criticism in Australia -- 14 Obstetric Realism and Sacred Cows: Women Writers and Book Reviewing in Australia -- 15 Literary Prizes and the Public Sphere -- 16 Literary Media Entertainment: Author Stardom and the Public (Media) Sphere -- 17 Australian Literature in the University -- 18 An Australian Ethics of Reading? -- Section E: Australian Literature and the World -- 19 News from Australia: Global Modernism Studies and the Case of Australian Modernism -- 20 Hijabi-Bodies and Sartorial Strategies -- 21 Australian Literature in Asia: China and India -- 22 Facing East: Asia in Australian Literature.

Section F: Key Themes in Australian Writing -- 23 Turning the Inside Out: Interiority and Australian Fiction -- 24 Gendering Australian Literature -- 25 'Silence Is My Habitat': Judith Wright, Writing, and Deafness -- 26 Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australian Literature -- 27 Into the Urban Labyrinth: Helen Garner and the Drug Narrative -- 28 'Something New at Hand': Australian Literature and the Sacred -- 29 Animal Presence: Problems and Potential in Recent Australian Fiction -- 30 Landscape (After Mabo) -- 31 'The Extraordinary Behind the Ordinary': A Brief History of Australian Suburban Literature -- 32 Australian Literature and Everyday Life -- 33 Emblematic Spaces: Postcoloniality and the Region -- Section G: Genre in Australian Literary Studies -- 34 Twenty-First-Century Australian Poetry -- 35 Life Writing and Conflict: Love Wins -- 36 Reluctant Wandering: New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian Travel Writing -- 37 Australia's Long Relationship with Romance -- 38 Magical Migrations: Australian Fairy Tale Traditions and Practices -- 39 Shadows in Paradise: Australian Gothic -- 40 Australian Television and Literary Criticism -- 41 Screen Adaptation and Australian Literature -- Index.

This Companion considers anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through critical debates.

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