Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

<p>In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This <em>Companion</em> emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms, as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities, this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with, produces and is produced by its context, provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures, cultures, and histories, and the social function of literary texts.</p> <p>Introduction Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral Responsibility</p><p><i>Jessica Gildersleeve</i></p><p>Section A: Literature in the Colony</p><p>Chapter 1 Expressing a New Civilisation: Authorship, Publishing and Reading in the 1890s</p><p><i>Roger Osborne</i></p><p>Chapter 2 The Redemption of the Larrikin at the Turn of the Twentieth Century</p><p><i>Michelle J Smith</i></p><p>Chapter 3 The Metropolis or the Bush?</p><p><i>Megan Brown</i></p><p>Chapter 4 The Weeping Kangaroo</p><p><i>Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver</i></p><p>Section B: Early Twentieth-Century Australia</p><p>Chapter 5 The Reflective Moment: Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Australia</p><p><i>Susan Carson</i></p><p>Chapter 6 Among the Autumn Authors: Books and Writers in Interwar Australian Magazines</p><p><i>Sarah Galletly and Victoria Kuttainen</i></p><p>Chapter 7 ‘Caterpillars of the Commonwealth’: Dangerous Books in Australia</p><p><i>Francesca Rendle-Short</i></p><p>Chapter 8 ‘Mad, Muddy, Mess of Eels’: Modern Theatre and Patrick White’s Sensuous Dramaturgy</p><p><i>Janet McDonald</i></p><p>Section C: Contemporary Australia</p><p>Chapter 9 ‘Are You With Me?’ Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the 1970s</p><p><i>Julian Meyrick and Jenny Fewster</i></p><p>Chapter 10 Around 1988: Australian Literature, History and the Bicentenary</p><p><i>Eduardo Marks de Marques</i></p><p>Chapter 11 Politics and Contemporary Australian Fiction</p><p><i>Nicholas Birns</i></p><p>Chapter 12 Towards a New Direction in Contemporary Criticism: Cognitive Australian Literary Studies</p><p><i>Jean-François Vernay</i></p><p>Section D: Australian Literary Studies in the Public Sphere</p><p>Chapter 13 Literary Criticism in Australia</p><p><i>Emmett Stinson</i></p><p>Chapter 14 Obstetric Realism and Sacred Cows: Women Writers and Book Reviewing in Australia</p><p><i>Melinda Harvey and Julieanne Lamond</i></p><p>Chapter 15 Literary Prizes and the Public Sphere</p><p><i>Alexandra Dane</i></p><p>Chapter 16 Literary Media Entertainment: Author Stardom and the Public (Media) Sphere</p><p><i>Della Robinson</i></p><p>Chapter 17 Australian Literature in the University</p><p><i>Leigh Dale</i></p><p>Chapter 18 An Australian Ethics of Reading?</p><p><i>Maggie Nolan</i></p><p>Section E: Australian Literature and the World</p><p>Chapter 19 News from Australia: Global Modernism Studies and the Case of Australian Modernism</p><p><i>Melinda J Cooper</i></p><p>Chapter 20 Hijabi-Bodies and Sartorial Strategies</p><p><i>Devaleena Das</i></p><p>Chapter 21 Australian Literature in Asia: China and India</p><p><i>David Carter and Paul Sharrad</i></p><p>Chapter 22 Australian Writing about Asia</p><p><i>David Walker</i></p><p>Section F: Key Themes in Australian Writing</p><p>Chapter 23 Turning the Inside Out: Interiority and Australian Fiction</p><p><i>Peter D Mathews</i></p><p>Chapter 24 Gendering Australian Literature</p><p><i>Alison Bartlett</i></p><p>Chapter 25 ‘Silence is My Habitat’: Judith Wright, Writing, and Deafness</p><p><i>Jessica White</i></p><p>Chapter 26 Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australian Literature</p><p><i>Daniel Hourigan</i></p><p>Chapter 27 Into the Urban Labyrinth: Helen Garner and the Drug Narrative</p><p><i>Nycole Prowse</i></p><p>Chapter 28 ‘Something New at Hand’: Australian Literature and the Sacred</p><p><i>Lyn McCredden</i></p><p>Chapter 29 Animal Representative Presence: Problems and Potential in Recent Australian Fiction</p><p><i>Clare Archer-Lean</i></p><p>Chapter 30 Landscape (After Mabo)</p><p><i>Tony Hughes-d’Aeth</i></p><p>Chapter 31 ‘The Extraordinary Behind the Ordinary’: A Brief History of Australian Suburban Literature</p><p><i>Nathanael O’Reilly</i></p><p>Chapter 32 Australian Literature and Everyday Life</p><p><i>Andrew McCann</i></p><p>Chapter 33 Emblematic Spaces: Postcoloniality and the Region</p><p><i>Stephanie Green</i></p><p>Section G: Genre in Australian Literary Studies</p><p>Chapter 34 Twenty-First-Century Australian Poetry</p><p><i>Sarah Holland-Batt and Ella Jeffery</i></p><p>Chapter 35 Life Writing and Conflict: Love Wins</p><p><i>Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas</i></p><p>Chapter 36 Reluctant Wandering: New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian Travel Writing</p><p><i>Kate Cantrell</i></p><p>Chapter 37 Australia’s Long Relationship with Romance</p><p><i>Tanya Dalziell</i></p><p>Chapter 38 Magical Migrations: Australian Fairy Tale Traditions and Practices</p><p><i>Nike Sulway</i></p><p>Chapter 39 Shadows in Paradise: Australian Gothic</p><p><i>Gina Wisker</i></p><p>Chapter 40 Australian Television and Literary Criticism</p><p><i>Susan Lever</i></p><p>Chapter 41 Screen Adaptation and Australian Literature</p><p><i>Karina Aveyard</i></p>