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Patrick White Beyond the Grave
Edited by Ian Henderson, Anouk Lang
Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ‘rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912–1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate future research into ‘world’ modernism, queer literature, and the ‘jittery’ modernist impulses of contemporary culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083978
August 2015
Active
£115.00 / $115.00Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ‘rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912–1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate future research into ‘world’ modernism, queer literature, and the ‘jittery’ modernist impulses of contemporary culture.
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Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique
Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity
Andrew McCann
This is the first theoretically informed study of Tsiolkas’s work. It follows the arc of his controversial career, and explores the tensions between political radicality, transgressive sexuality and his more recent commercial success.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084036
June 2015
Active
£115.00 / $115.00This is the first theoretically informed study of Tsiolkas’s work. It follows the arc of his controversial career, and explores the tensions between political radicality, transgressive sexuality and his more recent commercial success.
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Performing Noncitizenship
Asylum Seekers in Australian Theatre, Film and Activism
Emma Cox
This exacting study examines the role that theatre, film and activism responsive to asylum seekers has played in the emergence of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone idea in contemporary Australian political and social life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084005
May 2015
Active
£115.00 / $115.00This exacting study examines the role that theatre, film and activism responsive to asylum seekers has played in the emergence of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone idea in contemporary Australian political and social life.
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Inside Australian Culture
Legacies of Enlightenment Values
Baden Offord, Erika Kerruish, Rob Garbutt, Adele Wessell, Kirsten Pavlovic
foreword by Ashis Nandy
afterword by Vinay Lal‘Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate how the public sphere continues to derive its values from the British Enlightenment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082315
July 2014
Active
£115.00 / $115.00‘Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate how the public sphere continues to derive its values from the British Enlightenment.
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Australian Patriography
How Sons Write Fathers in Contemporary Life Writing
Stephen Mansfield
This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers is the first of its kind within Australian literature. It offers compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283306
May 2013
Active
£115.00 / $115.00This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers is the first of its kind within Australian literature. It offers compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others.
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Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930–1970
The Getting of Bookselling Wisdom
Jason D. Ensor
This volume details the history of Australia’s oldest and most nationally iconic publishing firm, Angus & Robertson, and its long-term investment in establishing and maintaining a viable commercial arm in London from 1930 to 1970.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857285669
December 2012
Active
£115.00 / $115.00This volume details the history of Australia’s oldest and most nationally iconic publishing firm, Angus & Robertson, and its long-term investment in establishing and maintaining a viable commercial arm in London from 1930 to 1970.
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Reading by Numbers
Recalibrating the Literary Field
Katherine Bode
‘Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ explores the critical potential of digital and quantitative methods for producing new knowledge about literary and cultural history.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284549
July 2012
Active
£115.00 / $115.00‘Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ explores the critical potential of digital and quantitative methods for producing new knowledge about literary and cultural history.
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Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity
Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments
Robert Dixon
This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287953
January 2012
Active
£115.00 / $115.00This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.
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Imagined Mobility
Migration and Transnationalism among Indian Students in Australia
Michiel Baas
This book critically examines the history and current issues on the migration of Indian students to Australia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318934
October 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00This book critically examines the history and current issues on the migration of Indian students to Australia.
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Virtual Voyages
Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837
Dr. Paul Longley Arthur
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318002
March 2010
Active
£115.00 / $115.00‘Virtual Voyages’ is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive ‘great south land’ told through the literature of ‘imaginary voyages’.