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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE 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 Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian liter- ature 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 be- tween national literatures, cultures, and histories, and the social function of literary texts. Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. She is the author and editor of several books, including Christos Tsiolkas: The Uto- pian Vision (2017) and Memory and the Wars on Terror: Australian and British Perspectives (2017, with Richard Gehrmann). THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE Edited by Jessica Gildersleeve First published 2021 by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Jessica Gildersleeve; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Jessica Gildersleeve to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this title has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-64356-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-12416-0 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by codeMantra For Harry and Sam, my budding young Australian readers. CONTENTS List of Illustrations xii Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgements xix Introduction: Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral Responsibility 1 Jessica Gildersleeve SECTION A Literature in the Colony 7 1 Expressing a New Civilisation: Authorship, Publishing, and Reading in the 1890s 9 Roger Osborne 2 The Redemption of the Larrikin at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 18 Michelle J. Smith 3 The Metropolis or the Bush? 25 Megan Brown 4 The Weeping Kangaroo 34 Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver vii Contents SECTION B Early Twentieth-Century Australia 45 5 The Reflective Moment: Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Australia 47 Susan Carson 6 Among the Autumn Authors: Books and Writers in Interwar Australian Magazines 54 Sarah Galletly and Victoria Kuttainen 7 ‘Caterpillars of the Commonwealth’: Dangerous Books in Australia 63 Francesca Rendle-Short 8 ‘Mad, Muddy, Mess of Eels’: Modern Theatre and Patrick White’s Sensuous Dramaturgy 75 Janet McDonald SECTION C Contemporary Australia 83 9 ‘Are You With Me?’ Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the 1970s 85 Julian Meyrick and Jenny Fewster 10 Around 1988: Australian Literature, History, and the Bicentenary 99 Eduardo Marks de Marques 11 Politics and Contemporary Australian Fiction 107 Nicholas Birns 12 Towards a New Direction in Contemporary Criticism: Cognitive Australian Literary Studies 116 Jean-François Vernay SECTION D Australian Literary Studies in the Public Sphere 123 13 Literary Criticism in Australia 125 Emmett Stinson 14 Obstetric Realism and Sacred Cows: Women Writers and Book Reviewing in Australia 134 Melinda Harvey and Julieanne Lamond viii Contents 15 Literary Prizes and the Public Sphere 147 Alexandra Dane 16 Literary Media Entertainment: Author Stardom and the Public (Media) Sphere 155 Della Robinson 17 Australian Literature in the University 163 Leigh Dale 18 An Australian Ethics of Reading? 171 Maggie Nolan SECTION E Australian Literature and the World 179 19 News from Australia: Global Modernism Studies and the Case of Australian Modernism 181 Melinda J. Cooper 20 Hijabi-Bodies and Sartorial Strategies 193 Devaleena Das 21 Australian Literature in Asia: China and India 203 David Carter and Paul Sharrad 22 Facing East: Asia in Australian Literature 215 David Walker SECTION F Key Themes in Australian Writing 225 23 Turning the Inside Out: Interiority and Australian Fiction 227 Peter D. Mathews 24 Gendering Australian Literature 235 Alison Bartlett 25 ‘Silence Is My Habitat’: Judith Wright, Writing, and Deafness 243 Jessica White 26 Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australian Literature 254 Daniel Hourigan ix
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