The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781316514481)

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and demonstrate what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.

Author: Nicholas Birns, Louis Klee
ISBN-10: 131651448X
ISBN-13: 9781316514481
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2023
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2024