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  • Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction
  • Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels
  • Review of *Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964*, by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell
  • What is Australian Popular Fiction?
  • The Ends of Empire: Australian Steampunk and the Reimagining of Euro-Modernity
  • The Menace of Intimacy: Domestic Noir, Feminist Criminology, and Emily Maguire’s *An Isolated Incident*
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction in the Twenty-First Century
Volume 33, No. 4

Edited by Kim Wilkins, Beth Driscoll and Lisa Fletcher.

3 December 2018
  • Re-Imagining Indigenous Australia through the Short Story: *Heat and Light* by Ellen van Neerven.
  • Short Fiction Short Nation: The Ideologies of Australian Realism
  • Review of *D. H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the Edge of Empire*, by David Game
  • Review of *Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature*, edited by Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore and Sarah Shieff.
Volume 33, No. 3
2 November 2018
  • Review of *Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016*, by Gordon McMullan and Philip Mead, with Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Kate Flaherty, and Mark Houlahan
  • Literary Aspiration and the Papers of William Gosse Hay
  • Review of *Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays*, edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas
  • Reading the South Through Northern Eyes: Jorge Luis Borges’s Australian Reception, 1962–2016
  • Economies of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Catherine Helen Spence’s Short Fiction for Children
  • ‘Adjusted’ Vision: Interwar Settler Modernism in Eleanor Dark’s *Return to Coolami*
Volume 33, No. 2
9 July 2018
  • Review of *Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow*, by Suzanne Falkiner
  • Review of *The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and Sacred*, by Lyn McCredden.
  • Magda Meets Theodora: Language and Interiority in *The Aunt’s Story* and *In The Heart of the Country*
  • Review of *Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy*, by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
  • Serving ‘a Male Philosophy’? *Elizabeth Costello*’s Feminism and Coetzee’s Dialogues with Joyce
  • Eurydice’s Curse: J. M. Coetzee and the Prospect of Death
  • Review of *Required Reading: Literature in Australian schools Since 1945*, edited by Tim Dolin, Jo Jones and Patricia Dowsett.
  • Coetzee’s Womanizing
  • ‘In Every Story There Is a Silence’: Translating Coetzee’s Female Narrators into Italian
  • The Communion of Clouds: Becoming-Woman in Coetzee’s *Waiting for the Barbarians*
  • Coetzee and Wicomb: Writers Giving an Account of Themselves in *Age of Iron* and *October*
  • *In the Heart of the Country* and Pain: Re-reading Space, Gender and Affect
Thematising Women in the Work of J. M. Coetzee
Volume 33, No. 1

Edited by Sue Kossew, Julieanne Lamond and Melinda Harvey.

All but one of the essays in this special issue called ‘Thematising Women in the Work of J. M. Coetzee’ were first presented at the 'Reading Coetzee’s Women' conference convened by…

25 February 2018
  • Constructing Cosmopolitanism, Promoting Humanitarianism: The Marvellous Melbourne of E.W. Cole in Lisa Lang’s *Utopian Man* (2010)
  • Toward Worlding Settler Texts: Tracking the Uses of Miles Franklin’s *My Brilliant Career* through the Curriculum
  • Review of *Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision*, by Jessica Gildersleeve
Volume 32, No. 2
19 September 2017
  • Who is My Neighbour?: Tim Winton’s ‘Aquifer’ and the Ghosts of Cloudstreet
  • ‘Having Fun with the Professors’: Gwen Harwood and Doctor Eisenbart
Volume 32, No. 1
26 February 2017
  • ‘The Young Man Will Go Far’: Educational Mobility and Christina Stead’s Compositional Practice in the Early 1930s
  • Christina Stead’s Earliest Publications
  • Christina Stead’s Student Publications
  • The Tank Stream Press: Urban Modernity and Cultural Life in Christina Stead’s *Seven Poor Men of Sydney*
  • ‘Lights all askew in the heavens’: Einsteinian Relativity, Literary Modernism and the Lecture on Light in Christina Stead’s *Seven Poor Men of Sydney*
  • ‘Merely Unfriendly or Slightly Critical’: Christina Stead. The Left, and *I’m Dying Laughing*
  • Politics and Passion in Stead’s Late Novels
  • Introduction
  • The Children’s Chorus: Sibling Soundscapes in *The Man Who Loved Children*
  • Repetition and Christina Stead’s *The Man Who Loved Children*
  • Christina Stead’s ‘Kelly File’: Politics, Possession and the Writing of *Cotters’ England*
  • ‘A Vermeer in the Hayloft’: Christina Stead, Unjust Neglect and Transnational Improprieties of Place and Kind
Rediscovering Christina Stead
Volume 31, No. 6
8 December 2016
  • ‘Living in Sin’: Money and Morals in ‘Virtue’, a Play by Stella Miles Franklin
  • ‘No light, no land or sea’: Urban alienation in Elizabeth Harrower’s *Down in the City*.
Volume 31, no. 5
16 November 2016
  • The Post-Sovereign Novel: Biopolitical Immunities in Manfred Jurgensen’s *The American Brother*
  • Reading *The Electrical Experience* in *Cold Light*: Labour Politics and Narrative Form in Frank Moorhouse, Then and Now.
Volume 31 No. 4
10 August 2016
  • Review of *The Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose*
  • 'Taking the flowery bed back to Australia': The Repatriation of Charmian Clift and George Johnston
  • Cooper, Cather, Prichard, 'Pioneer': The Chronotope of Settler Colonialism
Volume 31 No. 3
1 June 2016
  • One Decade, Two Accounts: The Aboriginal Arts Board and ‘Aboriginal literature’, 1973-1983
  • Interview with Kerry Reed-Gilbert
  • Place, History and Story: Tony Birch and the Yarra River
Volume 31 No. 2
5 May 2016