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Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark鈥檚 Fiction is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark鈥檚 fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark鈥檚 writing.

This volume not only establishes a new view of Dark鈥檚 fiction as a whole, but also reflects on the ways in which her fiction speaks to our present moment, in the context of a globally fraught, post-pandemic, Anthropocene era. Above all, the revisiting of Dark鈥檚 fiction is mandated by a desire to recognise the ways in which it anticipates vital debates in Australian literary and national culture today, about settler colonialism and its legacies, and with regard to the histories, condition and status of Australia鈥檚 First Nations people.

This volume interweaves varied topical themes, from formal debates about modernism, historical realism and melodrama, to questions about modernity鈥檚 time and space, about gender and cultural difference, and about the specifics of built and natural environments. Time, Tide and History intentionally loosens the conventions of literary scholarship by including other kinds of work alongside critical and scholarly readings: a written dialogue between two contemporary historians about Dark鈥檚 legacy, and a biographical piece on the life and role of Eleanor Dark鈥檚 husband, Eric Payten Dark.

Bringing together the interwar fiction鈥檚 feminist and modernist dimensions with the historical turn of The Timeless Land trilogy, the essays in Time, Tide and History collectively pursue ethical and political questions while teasing out the distinctive thematic, formal and aesthetic features of Dark鈥檚 fiction.

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This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813鈥�68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life-documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur鈥檚 two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and with poet and future premier of NSW Henry Parkes, is especially impressive.

The letters selected for this edition document Harpur鈥檚 life in a previously unavailable way. They reveal the intriguing struggle of a high-minded young man to pursue a serious vocation as a poet amidst the unpromising contours of colonial New South Wales society. Despite bearing the taint of a convict family background, Harpur took his vocation with utmost seriousness and had much to endure before he would find recognition as a poet, mainly in colonial newspapers where his poems made over 900 appearances.

This edition captures the process in detail, as well as the production in 1883 of his Poems in book form. Even though editorially mangled, Poems confirmed his reputation and led to his presence in dozens of anthologies down to the present day.

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This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813鈥�68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life-documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur鈥檚 two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and with poet and future premier of NSW Henry Parkes, is especially impressive.

The letters selected for this edition document Harpur鈥檚 life in a previously unavailable way. They reveal the intriguing struggle of a high-minded young man to pursue a serious vocation as a poet amidst the unpromising contours of colonial New South Wales society. Despite bearing the taint of a convict family background, Harpur took his vocation with utmost seriousness and had much to endure before he would find recognition as a poet, mainly in colonial newspapers where his poems made over 900 appearances.

This edition captures the process in detail, as well as the production in 1883 of his Poems in book form. Even though editorially mangled, Poems confirmed his reputation and led to his presence in dozens of anthologies down to the present day.

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War is traditionally considered a male experience. By extension, the genre of war literature is a male-dominated field, and the tale of the battlefield remains the privileged (and only canonised) war story.

In Australia, although women have written extensively about their wartime experiences, their voices have been distinctively silenced. Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend calls for a re-definition of war literature to include the numerous voices of women writers, and further recommends a re-reading of Australian national literatures, with women鈥檚 war writing foregrounded, to break the hold of a male-dominated literary tradition and pass on a vital, but unexplored, women鈥檚 tradition.

Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend examines the rich body of World Wars I and II and Vietnam War literature by Australian women, providing the critical attention and treatment that they deserve. Donna Coates records the reaction of Australian women writers to these conflicts, illuminating the complex role of gender in the interpretation of war and in the cultural history of twentieth-century Australia.

By visiting an astonishing number of unfamiliar, non-canonical texts, Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend profoundly alters our understanding of how Australian women writers have interpreted war, especially in a nation where the experience of colonising a frontier has spawned enduring myths of identity and statehood.

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Winner of the Alvie Egan Award 2023

Eleanor Dark (1901鈥�85) is one of Australia鈥檚 most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and represents a significant engagement with global modernity from a unique position within settler culture. Yet Dark鈥檚 contribution to 20th-century literature has been undervalued in the fields of both Australian literary studies and world literature. Although two biographies have been written about her life, there has been no book-length critical study of her writing published since 1976.

Middlebrow Modernism counters this neglect by providing the first full-length critical survey of Eleanor Dark鈥檚 writing to be published in over four decades. Focusing on the fiction that Dark produced during the interwar years and reading this in the context of her larger body of work, this book positions Dark鈥檚 writing as important to the study of Australian literature and global modernism.

Melinda Cooper argues that Dark鈥檚 fiction exhibits a distinctive aesthetic of middlebrow modernism, which blends attributes of literary modernism with popular fiction. It seeks to mediate and reconcile apparent binaries: modernism and mass culture; liberal humanism and experimental aesthetics; settler society and international modernity. The term middlebrow modernism also captures the way Dark negotiated cosmopolitan commitments with more place-based attachments to nation and local community within the mid-20th century.聽

Middlebrow Modernism posits that Dark鈥檚 fiction and the broader phenomenon of Australian modernism offer essential case studies for larger debates operating within global modernist and world literature studies, providing perspectives these fields might otherwise miss.

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Shortlisted for the AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship 2022 Winner of the Walter McRae Russell Award 2023

Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy鈥檚 Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?

From Furphy鈥檚 handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controversial abridgement for the British market (condemned by A.D. Hope as a 鈥渕utilation鈥�), and periods of obscurity and rediscovery, the text has been reshaped and repackaged by many hands. Furphy鈥檚 first editors at the Bulletin diluted his socialist message and 鈥渃orrected鈥� his Australian slang to create a more marketable book. Later, literary players including Vance and Nettie Palmer, Miles Franklin, Kate Baker and Angus & Robertson all took an interest in how Furphy鈥檚 work should be published.

In a fascinating piece of literary detective work, Osborne traces the book鈥檚 journey and shows how economic and cultural forces helped to shape the novel we read today.

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Gail Jones is one of Australia鈥檚 foremost contemporary novelists. Her books have won or been shortlisted for the Prime Minister鈥檚 Literary Award, the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize, and numerous state literary awards. They are taught in high schools and universities across the country.

This collection of essays offers reflections on Jones鈥� fiction by leading Australian and international literary critics. For readers who loved Sixty Lights, Five Bells, Sorry and Jones鈥� other novels, and for students of Jones鈥� work, this book will be an illuminating companion. With chapters on her use of language, her thematic preoccupations, and her place in local and global literary culture, it is a timely guide to the work of an exceptional Australian writer.

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Winner of the AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship 2022

鈥淰arney combines a theoretically astute sense of the hybridity of the dramatic event, with a dense but lucidly rendered sociological history of White鈥檚 plays as they progress through different productions, revivals, and receptions 鈥� This is an essential insight, and one which could be usefully extended to White鈥檚 novels, and perhaps to Australian modernism broadly.鈥� - Jonathan Dunk, Australian Book Review

One of the giants of Australian literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he turned his hand to playwriting.

In Patrick White's Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of White's eight published plays, discussing how they have been staged and received over a period of 60 years. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st-century revivals incorporating digital technology, these productions and their reception illustrate the major shifts that have taken place in Australian theatre over time. Varney unpacks White's complex and unique theatrical imagination, the social issues that preoccupied him as a playwright, and his place in the wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.

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Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796鈥�1880) arrived in Sydney in 1838 and became almost immediately notorious for her poem 鈥淭he Aboriginal Mother,鈥� written in response to the infamous Myall Creek massacre. She published more poetry in colonial newspapers during her lifetime, but for the century following her death her work was largely neglected. In recent years, however, critical interest in Dunlop has increased, in Australia and internationally and in a range of fields, including literary studies; settler, postcolonial and imperial studies; and Indigenous studies.

This stimulating collection of essays by leading scholars considers Dunlop's work from a range of perspectives and includes a new selection of her poetry.

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Shortlisted for the Walter McRae Russel Award 2021

Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics is an accessible guide to the writings of Gail Jones, the award-winning Australian author, essayist and academic.

Drawing together ideas from literature, art, philosophy and photography, the volume presents a compelling analysis of Jones鈥� literary commitment to the political and the personal, and reflects on how and why we interpret literary texts.

An essential contribution to the intersecting fields of Australian studies and international literature, Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics offers innovative insights into the writing of one of Australia鈥檚 most accomplished authors.

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鈥楩allen Among Reformers鈥� focuses on Stella Miles Franklin鈥檚 New Woman protest literature written during her time in Chicago with the National Women鈥檚 Trade Union League (1906-1915). This time away from literary pursuits enriched Franklin鈥檚 literary productivity and provided a feminist social justice ethics, which shaped her writing.

Close readings of Franklin鈥檚 (mostly unpublished) short stories, plays, and novels contextualises them in the personal politics of her everyday life and historicises them in the socio-economic and literary realities of early twentieth-century Australia and United States: themes embedded in broader cultural patterns of socialism, pacifism, and feminism.

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Gerald Murnane is one of Australia鈥檚 most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as 鈥渢he greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of鈥� and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner.

Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane鈥檚 diverse body of work.

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Winner of the Walter McRae Russel Award 2021

Although Christina Stead is best known for the mid-century masterpiece set in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, The Man Who Loved Children, it was not her only work about the America. Five of Christina Stead鈥檚 mid-career novels deal with the United States, capturing and critiquing American life with characteristic sharpness and originality.

In this examination of Stead鈥檚 American work, Fiona Morrison explores Stead鈥檚 profound engagement with American politics and culture and their influence on her 鈥渞estlessly experimental鈥� style. Through the turbulent political and artistic debates of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the emergence of McCarthyism, the 鈥渕atter鈥� of America provoked Stead to continue to create new ways of writing about politics, gender and modernity.

"This superb study of Stead鈥檚 fiction not only significantly advances scholarship on Stead but is a significant analysis of mid-twentieth-century fiction in its own right ... Brilliantly researched, written and argued, Morrison鈥檚 book offers a testimony to the capacities of literary scholarship to map the tectonic movement of ideas that shaped the modern world system." Tony Hughes-d'Aeth and panel, Walter McRae Russel Award

This is the first critical study to focus on Stead鈥檚 time in America and its influence on her writing. Morrison argues compellingly that Stead鈥檚 American novels 鈥渞eveal the work of the greatest political woman writer of the mid twentieth century鈥�, and that Stead鈥檚 account of American ideology and national identity remains extraordinarily prescient, even today.

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Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s鈥�1940s explores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid-20th 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鈥檚 connections to British and US markets, their research challenges established understandings of national, imperial and world literatures.

Carter and Osborne examine how Australian authors, editors and publishers engaged productively with their American counterparts, and how American readers and reviewers responded to Australian works. They consider the role played by British publishers and agents in taking Australian writing to America, and creating new opportunities for novelists to move between markets.

Some of these writers, such as Christina Stead and Patrick White, remain household names; others who once enjoyed international fame, such as Dale Collins and Alice Grant Rosman, have been largely forgotten. The story of their books in America reveals how culture, commerce and copyright law interacted to create both opportunities and obstacles for Australian writers.

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Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based author. In the course of the last half century, Hazzard鈥檚 writing has crossed and re-crossed the terrain of love, war, beauty, politics and ethics.

Hazzard鈥檚 oeuvre effortlessly reflects and represents the author's life and times, encapsulating the prominent feelings, anxieties and questions of the second half of the 20th century. It is these qualities, along with Hazzard鈥檚 lyrical style that place her among the most noteworthy Australian writers of the 20th century.

Hazzard鈥檚 work has been duly praised and admired by many including the critic Bryan Appleyard who describes her as 鈥榯he greatest living writer on goodness and love鈥�. In 2011, novelist Richard Ford observed: 鈥業f there has to be one best writer working in English today it鈥檚 Shirley Hazzard.鈥�

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Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied essays offer new ways of understanding Flanagan鈥檚 contribution to Tasmanian, Australian and world literature.

Flanagan鈥檚 fictional worlds offer empathetic, often poignant, renderings of those whose voices have been lost beneath official accounts of history, stories from a small region that have made their mark on a global scale. Considering his seven novels as well as his non-fiction, journalism and correspondence, this collection examines the historical and geographical factors that have shaped Flanagan鈥檚 representation of Tasmanian identity.

This collection offers new insights into a determinedly regional writer, and the impact he has had on a local, national and global scale.

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Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated novelists and ten noted critics of Australian literature to consider the legacy and continuing importance of this major literary figure.

The essays examine all of Harrower鈥檚 published fiction, from her first short story to the long-delayed publication of In Certain Circles in 2014. Together they provide an wide ranging introduction to the extraordinary imaginative and intellectual project of her work. They explore her engagement with 20th-century history and post-war society, with modernism and modernity, and with the personal impacts of mass media, technology and industry. They demonstrate her grasp of the ethical and philosophical challenges confronting her readers and characters in late modernity as seen from a number of distinctive vantage points, including the harbourside mansions and commercial centres of post-war Sydney, the suburbs of industrial Newcastle and the bed-sitters of expatriate London in the 1960s.

Together the essays offer new insights into an Australian writer at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism, inviting readers to read and re-engage with Harrower鈥檚 work in a new light.

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In The Fiction of Tim Winton, Lyn McCredden explores the work of a major Australian author who bridges the literary鈥損opular divide.

Tim Winton has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award a record four times and has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His novels and short stories are widely studied in schools and universities, and have been lauded by critics both in Australia and internationally. Unusually for an Australian literary author, he is also one of the country鈥檚 most enduringly popular writers: Cloudstreet was voted 鈥楢ustralia鈥檚 favourite book鈥� in a poll conducted by the ABC, his books regularly appear on bestseller lists, and his stories have been adapted for the stage, television, cinema and opera.

In this wide-ranging study of Winton鈥檚 work and career, McCredden considers how Winton has sustained a strong mainstream following while exploring complex themes and moving between genres. Attending to both secular and sacred frames of reference, she considers his treatment of class, gender, place, landscape and belonging, and shows how a compassion for human falling and redemption permeates his work. She demonstrates how his engagement with these recurring ideas has deepened and changed over time, and how he has moved between 鈥� and challenged 鈥� the categories of the 鈥榩opular鈥� and the 鈥榣iterary鈥�.

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Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist鈥檚 eleven novels. While these books are immediately accessible to the general reading public, they are manifestly works of high literary seriousness 鈥� substantial, technically masterful and assured, intricately interconnected, and of great imaginative, intellectual and ethical weight.

Among his many prizes and awards, Alex Miller has twice won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Ancestor Game in 1993, and Journey to the Stone Country in 2003; the Commonwealth Writers鈥� prize, also for The Ancestor Game in 1993; and the New South Wales Premier鈥檚 Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize, for Conditions of Faith in 2001 and Lovesong in 2011. He received a Centenary Medal in 2001 and the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Having published his eleventh novel, Coal Creek, in 2013 鈥� which won the Victorian Premier鈥檚 Fiction Award in 2014 鈥� Miller is currently writing an autobiographical memoir with the working title Horizons.

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Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared 鈥� and disappeared 鈥� in Australian literature: the swagman, the larrikin, the colonial detective, the bushranger, the 鈥榗urrency lass鈥�, the squatter, and more. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies鈥� developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social and economic circumstances of life in the colonies.

In Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver explore the genres in which these characters flourished: the squatter novel, the bushranger adventure, colonial detective stories, the swagman鈥檚 yarn, the Australian girl鈥檚 romance. Authors as diverse as Catherine Helen Spence, Rosa Praed, Henry Kingsley, Anthony Trollope, Henry Lawson, Miles Franklin, Barbara Baynton, Rolf Boldrewood, Mary Fortune and Marcus Clarke were fascinated by colonial character types, and brought them vibrantly to life.

As this book shows, colonial Australian character types are fluid, contradictory and often unpredictable. When we look closely, they have the potential to challenge our assumptions about fiction, genre and national identity.

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Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia鈥檚 distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance.

In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward.

Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice 鈥� one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it. Contrary to the despairing of the critics, Australian literary identity continues to flourish. And as Birns finds, it is not one thing, but many.