The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel

David Carter (University of Queensland)

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Cambridge University Press
27 July 2023

Literary theory; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary reference works

The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.

Edited by: David Carter (University of Queensland)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 1.180kg
ISBN: 9781316514856
ISBN 10: 1316514854
Pages: 750
Publication Date: 27 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Carter is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. Recent books include Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace, 1840s–1940s (2018, with Roger Osborne) and Always Almost Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity (2013). A Career in Writing: Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career (1997) won the Walter McCrae Russell Award for literary studies.

Reviews for The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel

'What are novels for? One answer would be that they are for academics to find interest in and make researchable and teachable. … David Carter and his team have done a great job of showing how it's done.' Nicholas Jose, The Conversation