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The Anthology of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction
Ken Gelder
(editor),
Rachael Weaver
(editor),
Carlton
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Melbourne University Publishing
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2011
Z1802098
2011
anthology
short story
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adventure
'Marauding bushrangers, lost explorers, mad shepherds, new chums and mounted troopers: these are some of the characters who populate the often perilous world of colonial Australian adventure fiction. Squatters defend their hard-earned properties from attack, while floods and other natural disasters threaten to wipe any trace of settlement away. Colonial Australian adventure fiction takes its characters on a journey into remote and unfamiliar territory, often in pursuit of wealth and well-being. But these journeys are invariably fraught with danger, and everything comes at a price.
'This anthology collects the best examples of colonial Australian adventure fiction, with stories by Ernest Favenc, Louis Becke, Rosa Praed, Guy Boothby, and many others.' (From the publisher's website.)
Carlton : Melbourne University Publishing , 2011 pg. 1-11
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Subjects:
- Colonial literature & writers
- Adventure fiction
- Journeys
- Fictional characters
- Australian literature - International influences
- Plot
- Literary settings
- Aboriginal Australians - Literary portrayal
- Bushrangers
- Australian landscape - Literary portrayal
- Defining an Australian literature
- Australian literary criticism
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