European Perspectives: Contemporary Essays on Australian Literature

Imagined Counterpart: Outlining a Conceptual Literary Geography of Australia

Introduction

A Gendered Bush: Mansfield and Australian Drovers’ Wives

Searchlights and the Search for History in Christina Stead’s ‘Seven Poor Men of Sydney’

Fringe Finds Focus: Developments and Strategies in Aboriginal Writing in English

The Bridled Pegaroo, or, Is there a Colonial Poetics of Intertextuality

Gambling on Reality: A Reading of Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda

The Novel as ‘Work in Progress’: Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus

Is Phallocentricity a Sin? or a Peccadillo?: Comedy and Gender in Ethel Anderson’s At Parramatta and Patrick White’s Voss

Hal Porter, The Tower and the Quintessence of Porterism

‘Savage Paradise’: History, Violence and the Family in Some Recent Australian Fiction

Topographies of the Self: Coming to Terms with the Australian Landscape in Contemporary Australian Poetry

‘Home Ground, Foreign Territory’: Living with Australia

Reading the Signs of Michael Wilding’s ‘Knock, Knock’

Literary Criticism in Australia: A Change of Critical Paradigms?

Last Flight to Byzantium: Memoirs of Many in One

Australian Poems on European Paintings