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World Literatures in English: Australia - Selected Works

Contents: Literary History & Criticism | Collections

Included here are seminal and recent works.  Most of the materials may be checked-out.  Be sure to consult the Western Libraries Online Catalog for location and availability.


Literary History & Criticism

Argyle, Barry. An Introduction to the Australian Novel, 1830-1930. Oxford: Clarendon, 1972.
PR 9612.4 .A8

Blair, David and Peter Collins, eds. English in Australia. Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 2001.
Wilson 3 East PE 3601 .E54 2001

Dutton, Geoffrey. The Literature of Australia. Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin, 1964.
PR 9609.6 .D8 1964

Goldie, Terry. Fear and Temptation : The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures. Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's U P, 1989.
PN 3426 .I53 G64 1989

Hadgraft, Cecil. Australian Literature; A Critical Account to 1955. London: Heinemann, 1962.
PR 9604.3 .H3 1962

Healy, J. J. Literature and the Aborigine in Australia, 1770-1975. New York : St. Martin's, 1978.
PR 9605.6 .A88 H4 1979

Hodge, Bob and Vijay Mishra. Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind. North Sydney, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1991.
PR 3604.3 .H64 1991

Jones, Joseph Jay and Johanna Jones. Australian Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1983.
PR 9612.2 .J66 1983

Kiernan, Brian. Images of Society and Nature; Seven Essays on Australian Novels. Melbourne: Oxford U P, 1971.
PR 9612.5 .K524

Lock, Fred and Alan Lawson. Australian Literature : A Reference Guide. 2nd ed. Melbourne : Oxford U P, 1980.
PR 9604.3 .L6 1980

McDougall, Russell & Gillian Whitlock, eds. Australian/Canadian Literatures in English : Comparative Perspectives. North Ryde, NSW : Methuen, 1987.
PR 9605.3 .A97 1987

McDowell, Robert E. and Judith H. McDowell, eds. Asian/Pacific Literatures in English : Bibliographies. Washington : Three Continents, 1978.
PR 9080 .A84

Miller, Edmund Morris. Australian Literature, a Bibliography to 1938, Extended to 1950. Rev. ed. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1956.
PR 9604.3 .M54 1956

Pierce, Peter. The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1999.
PR 3605.5 .M57 P54 1999

Rees, Leslie. A History of Australian Drama. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1973-1978.
PR 9611.2 .R43 v.1-2

Saxby, H. M. A History of Australian Children's Literature 1841-1941. Sydney: Wentworth, 1969.
PN 1009 .A1 S33

Simms, Norman. Silence and Invisibility : A Study of the Literatures of the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand. Washington, D.C. : Three Continents, 1986.
PN 849 .P25 S56 1986

Threadgold, Terry. Feminist Poetics: Poeisis, Performance, Histories. New York: Routledge, 1997.
PR 9608 .T47 1997

Vice, Sue. Holocaust Fiction New York: Routledge, 2000.
PR 888 .H6 V53 2000

Wilkes, G. A. and J. C. Reid. Australia and New Zealand. University Park : Pennsylvania State U P, [1970?].
PR 9604.4 .W5


Collections, with Introductory Essays

Bail, Murray, ed. The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories. London: Faber and Faber, 1988.
PR 9617.32 .F33 1988

Buckley, Vincent, ed. The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse. London : Faber and Faber, 1991.
PR 9615.7 .F33 1991

Cantrell, Leon, ed. The 1890's : Stories, Verse, and Essays. St. Lucia : U of Queensland P, 1977.
PR 9614.8 .E37

Davis, Jack, et al., eds. Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings. St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland P, 1990.
PR 9614.5 .B55 P36 1990

Dibble, Brian, Don Grant and Glen Phillips, eds. Celebrations : A Bicentennial Anthology of Fifty Years of Western Australian Poetry and Prose. Nedlands, WA : U of Western Australia P, 1988.
PR 9618.2 .W42 C45 1988

Gilbert, Kevin, ed. Inside Black Australia : An Anthology of Aboriginal Poetry. Ringwood, Victoria : Penguin, 1988.
PR 9608.2 .A96 I57 1988

Goodwin, Ken and Alan Lawson, eds. The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature. South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1990.
PR 9614.4 .M33 1990

Hadgraft, Cecil, ed. The Australian Short Story before Lawson. Melbourne: Oxford U P, 1986.
PR 9617.32 .A946 1986

Heseltine, Harry P., ed. The Penguin Book of Australian Verse. Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books Australia, 1972.
PR 9551 .H47

Johnson, Susan and Mary Roberts, eds. Latitudes: New Writing from the North. St. Lucia, QLD: Uof Queensland P, 1986.
PR 9618.2 .Q42 L38 1986

Jordan, Richard D. and Peter Pierce, eds. The Poets' Discovery : Nineteenth-century Australia in Verse. Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne U P, 1990.
PR 9615.6 .P64 1990

Kramer, Leonie and Adrian Mitchell, eds. The Oxford Anthology of Australian Literature. Melbourne : Oxford U P, 1985.
PR 9614.4 .O9

Leonard, John, ed. Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology. Melbourne : Oxford U P, 1998.
PR 9615.25 .A88 1998

Murdoch, Walter, Sir, ed. The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. London : Oxford U P, 1918.
PR 9615.25 .M9

The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse. Chosen by Les A. Murray. Melbourne : Oxford U P, 1986.
PN 849 .A952 N49 1986

Reid, Don and Frank Bladwell, eds. In Focus; Scripts from Commercial Television's Second Decade. Melbourne : Macmillan of Australia, English Teachers' Association of New South Wales, 1972.
PN 6120 .T4 R4

Rodd, L. C., ed. The Australian Essay. Melbourne : Cheshire, 1968.
PR 9617.7 .R6

Sabbioni, Jennifer, Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith, eds. Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U P, 1998.
PR 9614.5 .A94 I53 1998

Wallace-Crabbe, Chris, ed. The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry. Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne U P, 1980.
PR 9615.7 .G65

Webby, Elizabeth and Lydia Wevers, eds. Goodbye to Romance: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1930s-1980s. Wellington, N.Z.: Allen & Unwin, 1989.
PR 9617.33.W65 G66 1989

Webby, Elizabeth and Lydia Wevers, eds. Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1850s-1930s Wellington, N.Z.: Allen & Unwin, 1987.
PR 9614.5.W6 H37 1987

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