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  • Colonial Adventure

    by Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    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 follow a straight line. Some were shipwrecked, lost or marooned; adventure turned into misadventure. Others left the colony as soon as they arrived. Convicts fled to Timor, China, and South America, while bushrangers roamed the country, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Forger's Wife

    by John Lang ...
    Series Book 1 - Colonial Australian Popular Fiction
    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 adventure novel, set in an unruly colonial Sydney where everyone is on the make. The forger's wife is a young woman who follows her rakish husband out to Australia and struggles to survive as her marriage falls apart. ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • After The Celebration

    Australian Fiction 1989-2007

    by Ken Gelder, Paul Salzman ...
    After the Celebration explores Australian fiction from 1989 to 2007, after Australia's bicentenary to the end of the Howard government. In this literary history, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman combine close attention to Australian novels with a vivid depiction of their contexts: cultural, social, political, historical, national and transnational. From crime fiction to the postmodern colonial novel, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction

    by Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    From the editors of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction comes this fascinating collection of disturbing mysteries and gruesome tales by authors such as Mary Fortune, James Skipp Borlase, Guy Boothby, Francis Adams, Ernest Favenc, 'Rolf Boldrewood' and Norman Lindsay, among many others.In the bush and the tropics, the goldfields and the city streets, colonial Australia is a ... Read more

    $13.71 USD

  • Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

    by 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 Rachael Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, and a source of violent conflict between settlers and Aboriginal people. The kangaroo hunt ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Anthology Of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction

    by Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction collects captivating stories of love and passion, longing and regret. In these tales women arriving in the New World make decisions about relationships and marriage, social conventions, finances and career—and even the future of the nation itself. The 'slim and graceful' Australian girl becomes a new character type: independent, self-possessed ... Read more

    $14.44 USD

  • Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent

    by Dany Adone, Katrin Althans, Eva Bischoff, Melanie Brück, Norbert Finzsch, Ken Gelder, Helen Gilbert, Anna Haebich, Victoria Herche, Bentley James, David Kern, Catherine Laudine, Philip Mead, Anke Tonnaer, Rachael Weaver, Carsten Wergin, Sandra Williams, Alexis Wright, C.A. Cranston ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • New Vampire Cinema

    by Ken Gelder ...
    New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vibrant, inauthentic and 'original', insubstantial and self-sustaining.Ken Gelder's fascinating study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy the ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Adapting Bestsellers

    Fantasy, Franchise and the Afterlife of Storyworlds

    by Ken Gelder ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    This Element looks at adaptations of bestselling works of popular fiction to cinema, television, stage, radio, video games and other media platforms. It focuses on 'transmedia storytelling', building its case studies around the genre of modern fantasy: because the elaborate storyworlds produced by writers like J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling and George R. R. Martin have readily lent themselves to ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Uncanny Australia

    Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation

    by Jane M Jacobs, Ken Gelder ...
    Aboriginal claims for sacredness in modern Australia may seem like minor events, but they have radically disturbed the nation's image of itself. Minorities appear to have too much influence; majorities suddenly feel embattled. What once seemed familiar can now seem disconcertingly unfamiliar, a condition Ken Gelder and Jane M. Jacobs diagnose as 'uncanny'. In Uncanny Australia Gelder and Jacobs ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Anthology Of Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction

    by Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    Grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate an unforgiving landscape that is the stuff of nightmares. These compelling stories are the dark underside to the usual story of colonial progress, promise and nation-building, and reveal the gothic imagination that lies at the heart of Australian fiction.This anthology collects the best examples of colonial Australian gothic short ... Read more

    $13.71 USD

  • New Directions in Popular Fiction

    Genre, Distribution, Reproduction

    Edited by Ken Gelder ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus. It looks into the histories of popular genres such as the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction, Whitechapel Gothic novels, the British spy thriller, Japanese mysteries, the 'new weird', fantasy, girl hero action novels and ... Read more

    $134.09 USD