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    Colonial Adventure

    Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver

    Australian narratives of colonial discovery

    Adventure was one of the grand narratives of colonisation, which saw European powers sending agents off to new and distant worlds. Their journeys didn't always…

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    The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    Featuring ex-convicts, bushrangers, ruthless gold prospectors, forgers and impostors, thieves and murderers, this book contains stories that show how they challenged colonial law and order. It collects the best examples…

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    The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    The best examples of colonial Australian romance are collected in this anthology, from writers such as Ada Cambridge, Rosa Praed, Francis Adams, Henry Lawson. They show colonial women challenged by…

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    The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    Marauding bushrangers, lost explorers, mad shepherds, new chums and mounted troopers: these are some of the characters who populate the often perilous world of colonial Australian adventure fiction.

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    The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children’s tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachel Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and…

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    The Anthology Of Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    Collects some of the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is…

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    Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared - and disappeared - in Australian literature. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies’ developing…

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    The Forger’s Wife

    John Lang

    John Lang was Australia’s first locally born novelist, publishing early work in Sydney in the 1840s and going on to write several bestsellers. The Forger’s Wife (1856) is a lively…

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    Force and Fraud: A Tale of the Bush

    Ellen Davitt

    Ellen Davitt’s Force and Fraud: A Tale of the Bush is a feisty account of a murder investigation in the colonies that takes the twists and turns of English sensation…

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    An Australian Bush Track

    J D Hennessey

    A nineteenth-century colonial adventure In the spirit of H. Rider Haggard, set on the Australian frontier.

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    The Colonial Journals: And the emergence of Australian literary culture

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    Colonial Australia produced a vast number of journals and magazines that helped to create an exuberant literary landscape. They were filled with lively contributions by many of the key writers…

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