Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s.

Intro -- Half title page -- Series title page -- Full book title page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Two-Sided Triangle -- 1: Antipodean Romance: Australian Fiction and the American Book Trade in the Nineteenth Century -- 2: International Reputations and Transatlantic Rights: Rosa Praed and Louis Becke -- 3: Crime, Sensation and the Modern Genre System: Australian Authors in the Popular Fiction Marketplace, 1890s-1920s -- 4: Renegotiating the American Connection: Australian Fiction 1900-1930s -- Plates -- 5: Mystery and Romance: The Market for Light Fiction Between the Wars -- 6: Becoming Articulate: Henry Handel Richardson and Katharine Susannah Prichard -- 7: "Australia is very American": Australian Historical Fiction in America 1920s-1940s -- 8: "Australian moderns": Christina Stead and Patrick White in New York -- 9: Bestsellers, Modest Sellers and Commercial Failures: The Postwar Years -- Epilogue: Completing the Triangle? -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the authors -- Copyright.

Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940sexplores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid twentieth century to a much greater degree than previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational long before the contemporary period. In mapping Australian literature's connections to British and US markets, their research challenges established understandings of national, imperial and world literatures.

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