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'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.' (Publication summary)

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Beyond Britain and the Book : the Nineteenth-century Australian Novel Unbound/ed, Katherine Bode , Sarah Galletly , Carol Hetherington , single work criticism (p. 44-62)
The Novel in the Late Colonial Period : The Book Trade, Readers and Their Cultural Outlook, Paul Eggert , single work criticism (p. 81-96)
The Novel Nation : Critical Histories for the Australian Novel, 1850s-1970s, David Carter , single work criticism (p. 131-148)
The National Trilogy and Mining, Philip Mead , single work criticism (p. 183-200)
The Mid-century Australian Novel and the End of World History, Elizabeth McMahon , single work criticism (p. 236-253)
When the Twain Meet : The Australian Novelist in Asia, David Walker , single work criticism (p. 288-302)
From Bunyip to Boom : Australian Fiction, 1955-1975, Paul Sharrad , single work criticism (p. 303-318)
'Our Least-known Best Seller' : Alan Yates and Australian Pulp Fiction, Andrew Nette , single work criticism (p. 354-368)
The Fortunes of the Miles Franklin : Australian Life in All Its Phases, Nicholas Birns , single work criticism (p. 612-628)
The Arab-Australian Novel : Between Nation and Diaspora, Jumana Bayeh , single work criticism (p. 629-645)
The Global Invention of the Australian Novel, Paul Giles , single work criticism
Colonial Adventure Novels, Ken Gelder , Rachael Weaver , single work criticism
Transnational Optics : The Late Colonial Fiction of Ada Cambridge and Catherine Martin, Robert Dixon , single work criticism
Love Is Not Enough : Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century, Hsu-Ming Teo , single work criticism
The Australian Crime Novel, 1830-1950, Rachel Franks , single work criticism
Selling Australian Stories to the World : The Dynamics of Twentieth Century Publishing, Roger Osborne , single work criticism
Women Writers and the Emerging Urban Novel, 1930-1952, Meg Brayshaw , single work criticism
Nation and Environment in the Twentieth Century Novel, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth , single work criticism
Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and the Transnational Fiction of Provincial Development, Fiona Morrison , single work criticism
Race, Romance and Anxiety : A History of Mid-twentieth Century Commercial Fiction, Catriona Elder , single work criticism
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David Carter (editor). The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel Samuel J. Cox , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , 20 December vol. 24 no. 1 2024;
— Review of The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023 anthology reference criticism 'There was a time when the study of Australian literature was the wild west, something that took place beyond the institutions, along the fringes and margins of journals, little magazines and newspapers. If the current institutional decay of the humanities and arts within universities is leading to the new-found surety of the discipline fraying a touch at the edges, it is nonetheless evident that the study of Australian literature has come a long way. And yet, it remains a remarkable fact that—whether we consider its origin point in those early days where men and women of letters compiled rudimentary histories, from the appointment of the first lecturer in Australian literature in 1941, or the appointment of the first professor of Australian literature in 1962 (G. A. Wilkes, see Carter 144)—no one across that great span of time has attempted to tell a standalone history of its most popular form: the novel. Given the rapid expansion of Australian publishing in the second half of the twentieth century and early twenty-first, the nature of this task has become more herculean with each passing year. With the publication of The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, edited by David Carter, the long wait is over.' 

(Introduction)
‘How Is the Great Australian Novel Going?’ Not Too Bad, Thanks Nicholas Jose , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 November 2023;
— Review of The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023 anthology reference criticism

'“How is The Great Australian Novel going?” asks a character in Thea Astley’s The Well Dressed Explorer, a Miles Franklin Literary Award winner in 1962.'
‘How Is the Great Australian Novel Going?’ Not Too Bad, Thanks Nicholas Jose , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 November 2023;
— Review of The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023 anthology reference criticism

'“How is The Great Australian Novel going?” asks a character in Thea Astley’s The Well Dressed Explorer, a Miles Franklin Literary Award winner in 1962.'
David Carter (editor). The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel Samuel J. Cox , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , 20 December vol. 24 no. 1 2024;
— Review of The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023 anthology reference criticism 'There was a time when the study of Australian literature was the wild west, something that took place beyond the institutions, along the fringes and margins of journals, little magazines and newspapers. If the current institutional decay of the humanities and arts within universities is leading to the new-found surety of the discipline fraying a touch at the edges, it is nonetheless evident that the study of Australian literature has come a long way. And yet, it remains a remarkable fact that—whether we consider its origin point in those early days where men and women of letters compiled rudimentary histories, from the appointment of the first lecturer in Australian literature in 1941, or the appointment of the first professor of Australian literature in 1962 (G. A. Wilkes, see Carter 144)—no one across that great span of time has attempted to tell a standalone history of its most popular form: the novel. Given the rapid expansion of Australian publishing in the second half of the twentieth century and early twenty-first, the nature of this task has become more herculean with each passing year. With the publication of The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, edited by David Carter, the long wait is over.' 

(Introduction)
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