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Introduction

Preoccupations of the Australian Novel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2023

Nicholas Birns  and
Louis Klee
By
Louis Klee  and
Nicholas Birns
Nicholas Birns
Affiliation:
New York University
Louis Klee
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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“The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and demonstrate what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice.”

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Australian LiteratureThe NovelSettler Colonial LiteratureFictionPostcolonial StudiesTheory of the NovelCosmopolitanismIndigenous StudiesTransnationalismthe Anthropocene
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The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel , pp. 1 - 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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