Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland.

• Introduction Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral ResponsibilityJessica GildersleeveSection A: Literature in the ColonyChapter 1 Expressing a New Civilisation: Authorship, Publishing and Reading in the 1890sRoger OsborneChapter 2 The Redemption of the Larrikin at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyMichelle J SmithChapter 3 The Metropolis or the Bush?Megan BrownChapter 4 The Weeping KangarooKen Gelder and Rachael WeaverSection B: Early Twentieth-Century AustraliaChapter 5 The Reflective Moment: Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century AustraliaSusan CarsonChapter 6 Among the Autumn Authors: Books and Writers in Interwar Australian MagazinesSarah Galletly and Victoria KuttainenChapter 7 ‘Caterpillars of the Commonwealth’: Dangerous Books in AustraliaFrancesca Rendle-ShortChapter 8 ‘Mad, Muddy, Mess of Eels’: Modern Theatre and Patrick White’s Sensuous DramaturgyJanet McDonaldSection C: Contemporary AustraliaChapter 9 ‘Are You With Me?’ Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the 1970sJulian Meyrick and Jenny FewsterChapter 10 Around 1988: Australian Literature, History and the BicentenaryEduardo Marks de MarquesChapter 11 Politics and Contemporary Australian FictionNicholas BirnsChapter 12 Towards a New Direction in Contemporary Criticism: Cognitive Australian Literary StudiesJean-François VernaySection D: Australian Literary Studies in the Public SphereChapter 13 Literary Criticism in AustraliaEmmett StinsonChapter 14 Obstetric Realism and Sacred Cows: Women Writers and Book Reviewing in AustraliaMelinda Harvey and Julieanne LamondChapter 15 Literary Prizes and the Public SphereAlexandra DaneChapter 16 Literary Media Entertainment: Author Stardom and the Public (Media) SphereDella RobinsonChapter 17 Australian Literature in the UniversityLeigh DaleChapter 18 An Australian Ethics of Reading?Maggie NolanSection E: Australian Literature and the WorldChapter 19 News from Australia: Global Modernism Studies and the Case of Australian ModernismMelinda J CooperChapter 20 Hijabi-Bodies and Sartorial StrategiesDevaleena DasChapter 21 Australian Literature in Asia: China and IndiaDavid Carter and Paul SharradChapter 22 Australian Writing about AsiaDavid WalkerSection F: Key Themes in Australian WritingChapter 23 Turning the Inside Out: Interiority and Australian FictionPeter D MathewsChapter 24 Gendering Australian LiteratureAlison BartlettChapter 25 ‘Silence is My Habitat’: Judith Wright, Writing, and DeafnessJessica WhiteChapter 26 Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australian LiteratureDaniel HouriganChapter 27 Into the Urban Labyrinth: Helen Garner and the Drug NarrativeNycole ProwseChapter 28 ‘Something New at Hand’: Australian Literature and the SacredLyn McCreddenChapter 29 Animal Representative Presence: Problems and Potential in Recent Australian FictionClare Archer-LeanChapter 30 Landscape (After Mabo)Tony Hughes-d’AethChapter 31 ‘The Extraordinary Behind the Ordinary’: A Brief History of Australian Suburban LiteratureNathanael O’ReillyChapter 32 Australian Literature and Everyday LifeAndrew McCannChapter 33 Emblematic Spaces: Postcoloniality and the RegionStephanie GreenSection G: Genre in Australian Literary StudiesChapter 34 Twenty-First-Century Australian PoetrySarah Holland-Batt and Ella JefferyChapter 35 Life Writing and Conflict: Love WinsKylie Cardell and Kate DouglasChapter 36 Reluctant Wandering: New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian Travel WritingKate CantrellChapter 37 Australia’s Long Relationship with RomanceTanya DalziellChapter 38 Magical Migrations: Australian Fairy Tale Traditions and PracticesNike SulwayChapter 39 Shadows in Paradise: Australian GothicGina WiskerChapter 40 Australian Television and Literary CriticismSusan LeverChapter 41 Screen Adaptation and Australian LiteratureKarina Aveyard

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