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In Australia in 1922, novelist DH Lawrence had a number of nightmares that were to haunt his novel, Kangaroo, which he s......more

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Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, b......more

In The Fiction of Tim Winton, Lyn McCredden explores the work of a major Australian author who bridges the literary-popu......more

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Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art is the first book to undertake a comprehensive surve......more

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Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, the continent has provided a radically differ......more

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Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Austr......more

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Thomas Keneally is known as a best-selling novelist and public figure in his Australian homeland and has also managed a ......more

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Crime fiction is popular internationally despite its cultural specificity. This book offers an accessible analysis of ho......more

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’The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and co......more

This book examines representations of the body in the works of four Oceanian women authors of French expression, conside......more

Volume 2 brings together four new sketches of Timor-Alor-Pantar languages. Each sketch is written by specialist linguist......more

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The New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield associated intimately with many members of the Bloomsbury group, but her......more

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