Colonial Australian Fiction

Ken Gelder is a professor of English and co-director of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne.Rachael Weaver is an ARC senior research fellow in English at the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne.

'Many character types are identified in this meticulously researched study.'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: the colonial economy and the production of colonial character typesThe reign of the squatterBushrangersColonial Australian detectivesBush types and metropolitan typesThe Australian girlWorks citedIndex