The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel

David Carter is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. Recent books include Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace, 1840s–1940s (2018, with Roger Osborne) and Always Almost Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity (2013). A Career in Writing: Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career (1997) won the Walter McCrae Russell Award for literary studies.

'What are novels for? One answer would be that they are for academics to find interest in and make researchable and teachable … David Carter and his team have done a great job of showing how it's done.' Nicholas Jose, The Conversation

• 1. The global invention of the Australian novel Paul Giles; 2. Colonial adventure novels Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver; 3. Beyond Britain and the book: the nineteenth-century Australian novel unbound/ed Katherine Bode, Sarah Galletly and Carol Hetherington; 4. Transnational optics: the late colonial fiction of Ada Cambridge and Catherine Martin Robert Dixon; 5. The novel in the late colonial period: the book trade, readers and their cultural outlook Paul Eggert; 6. Love is not enough: Australian romantic fiction from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century Hsu-Ming Teo; 7. The Australian crime novel, 1830–1950 Rachel Franks; 8. The novel nation: critical histories for the Australian novel, 1850s–1970s David Carter; 9. Selling Australian stories to the world: the dynamics of twentieth century publishing Roger Osborne; 10. Women Writers and the Emerging Urban Novel, 1930–1952 Meg Brayshaw; 11. The National trilogy and mining Philip Mead; 12. Nation and environment in the twentieth century novel Tony Hughes-d'Aeth; 13. Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and the transnational fiction of provincial development Fiona Morrison; 14. The mid-century Australian novel and the end of world history Elizabeth McMahon; 15. Race, romance and anxiety: a history of mid-twentieth century commercial fiction Catriona Elder; 16. Whiteness, aboriginality and representation in the twentieth century Australian novel Michael R. Griffiths; 17. When the twain meet: the Australian novelist in Asia David Walker; 18. From bunyip to boom: Australian fiction, 1955–1975 Paul Sharrad; 19. Unsettling archive: suburbs in Australian fiction Brigid Rooney; 20. The novel at arms: rereading Australian mid-century realism Nicole Moore; 21. 'Our least-known best seller': Alan Yates and Australian pulp fiction Andrew Nette; 22. Writing, women and the Australian novel Tanya Dalziell; 23. White Lies: colonial mythology and the decolonial impasse in the award-winning novels of Roger McDonald, Kim Scott and Alex Miller Christopher Lee; 24. The economics of the literary novel Emmett Stinson; 25. Mabo, history, sovereignty: the contemporary postcolonial novel Geoff Rodoreda; 26. Indigenous futurism Iva Polak; 27. The regional novel in Australia Emily Potter and Brigid Magner; 28. Children's and young adult literature Michelle J. Smith; 29. Grunge, nation and literary generations: Christos Tsiolkas and genre Jessica Gildersleeve; 30. The making of the Asian Australian novel Emily Zong; 31. Screening the Australian novel, 1971–2020 Imelda Whelehan and Claire McCarthy; 32. Australian fantasy, crime and romance fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Beth Driscoll and Kim Wilkins; 33. Uncertain futures: climate fiction in Australian literature Jessica White; 34. A (Sovereign) body of work: Australian indigenous literary culture and the literary fiction novel Eugenia Flynn; 35. The novel road to the global south: Australian fiction, international exposure and the transnational politics of disadvantage Sascha Morrell; 36. The fortunes of the miles franklin: Australian life in all its phases Nicholas Birns; 37. The Arab-Australian novel: between Nation and Diaspora Jumana Bayeh; 38. Riddling the nation: allegory in twenty-first century Australian fiction by women Maria Takolander; 39. Migrant writing and the invention of Australia Lynda Ng.