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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Dixon , Nicholas BirnsPublisher: Sydney University Press Imprint: Sydney University Press Weight: 0.425kg ISBN: 9781920899660ISBN 10: 1920899669 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 31 January 2011 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContributors Introduction Robert Dixon and Nicholas Birns Section 1: transpacific – national literatures and transnationalism 1. Antipodal propinquities? Environmental (mis)perceptions in American and Australian literary history Lawrence Buell 2. Antipodean America: Charles Brockden Brown, New Holland and the constitution of US literature Paul Giles 3. Transcendentalism, Emerson and 19th-century Australian literary culture Ken Stewart 4. Looking to American manhood: the correspondence of Alfred Deakin and Josiah Royce Marilyn Lake 5. American friends: Clinton Hartley Grattan and W.W. Norton Carol Hetherington 6. Missed appointments: convergences and disjunctures in reading Australia across the Pacific Nicholas Birns Section 2: poetry and poetics 7. East-west turnings: Australian and American poetry in light of Asia Paul Kane 8. Smooth and troubled passages across the Pacific Kevin Hart Section 3: literature and popular culture 9. Transnational connectivities of whiteness: American blackface in Life in Sydney Benjamin Miller 10. The Novel Newspaper and its role in the transmission of American fiction to Australia Elizabeth Webby 11. Elvis down under: simulations of a US pop icon in Australian fiction Paul Genoni 12. Cold dreams: national efforts and global visions in Antarctic arts programs John Scheckter Section 4: the Cold War 13. Troubled waters: Australian spies in the Pacific – glimpses from the early 20th century Bruce Bennett 14. ‘A skyrocket waiting to be let off,’ but to where? Christina Stead’s first impressions of the United States and her postwar literary rehabilitation Michael Ackland 15. The ‘American dilemma’: Christina Stead’s Cold War anatomy Fiona Morrison 16. An imperishable spring? Stow’s Tourmaline, the Cold War and the phenomenon of the star Kerry Leves 17. ‘Turning a place into a field’: Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire and Cold War area studies Robert Dixon Section 5: publishing history and transpacific print cultures 18. Literary appreciation, American-style: channels of influence in early 20th-century Australia Patrick Buckridge 19. New York city limits: Australian novels and American print culture Roger Osborne 20. Rejected by America? Some tensions in Australian literary relations Louise Poland and Ivor Indyk 21. American dreams and the University of Queensland Press Deborah Jordan 22. Transpacific or transatlantic traffic? Australian books and American publishers David Carter IndexReviewsAuthor InformationAbout the editors: Robert Dixon is professor of Australian literature at the University of Sydney. He is a general editor in Sydney University Press’ Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series. Nicholas Birns is associate professor at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts, New York University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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