Australian category: 153 books
On Patrick White
Writers on Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
‘Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound...
Travel Writing from Black Australia
Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian society....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Australia and New Zealand, united geographically by their location in the South Pacific and linguistically by their English-speaking inhabitants, share the strong bond of hope for cultural diversity and social equality--one often challenged by history, starting with the appropriation of land from...
The Novels of Alex Miller
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
One of Australia's most respected novelists, Alex Miller's writing is both popular and critically well-received. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. He has said that writing is his way of 'locating connections' and his work is known for its deeply empathic...
by Alison Croggon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
In 2010, the Guardian named Melbourne critic Alison Croggon as a ‘must read’ critic. She was the first online critic to be awarded the Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year, in 2009. Her blog Theatre Notes was the first theatre blog in Australia and, over its eight years of existence, made Croggon...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to make a contribution to both the Australian and the global canon is Kim Scott...
Imagined Landscapes
Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns...
A World of Fiction
Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
During the 19th century, throughout the Anglophone world, most fiction was first published in periodicals. In Australia, newspapers were not only the main source of periodical fiction, but the main source of fiction in general. Because of their importance as fiction publishers, and because they provided...
A Question of Commitment
Australian literature in the twenty years after the war
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1989
In the years since the Second World War, Australia has seen a period of literary creativity which outshines any earlier period in the nation's literary history. This creativity has its beginnings in the arguments and alignments which emerged at the end of the War, and the changes in perceptions of...
Australia's Original Languages
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
'A must read for all who would like to understand the languages and culture of Indigenous Australians.' Dr Ernie Grant, Elder of the Jirrbal nation
When Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay, about 250 distinct languages were spoken across the continent. Yet Australian Indigenous languages actually...
by Flora Eldershaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Margaret Preston on Australian women artists; Miles Franklin on suffragist Rose Scott; Eleanor Dark on Caroline Chisholm; Kylie Tennant on the future ... Like mirrors reflecting mirrors this book shows the precarious position of women in a country’s history. First published in 1938, the youngest...
by Henry Handel Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
The Getting of Wisdom
The Getting of Wisdom is a novel by Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. It was first published in 1910, and has almost always been in print ever since.
Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was...
The Secret of Hanging Rock
With Commentaries by John Taylor, Yvonne Rousseau and Mudrooroo
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Joan Lindsay's classic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period of Australian social life drawn with loving nostalgia. The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged...
Damaged in Transit
short Australian stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
‘Manning is a writer with a unique voice whose work is pushing the boundaries of contemporary short fiction.’ Paddy O’Reilly
Mary Manning’s exciting debut collection includes a Goth clutching a homemade tart on a Melbourne tram, an old lady camping out on a medium strip and a wife...