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Published 01-07-2007
ISBN 9780522854220
Pages 280
Subjects Anthologies: general Literature: history & criticism Colonialism and imperialism
Imprint MUP POD

The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction

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Published 01-07-2007
ISBN 9780522854220
Pages 280
Subjects Anthologies: general Literature: history & criticism Colonialism and imperialism
Imprint MUP POD

A unique collection of intriguing stories and fantastical yarns that vividly portrays colonial Australia and its hauntings.

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 stories by authors such as Marcus Clarke, Hume Nisbet, Henry Lawson and Katherine Susannah Prichard, among others.

Ken Gelder is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. His books include Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998, with Jane M Jacobs), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004), Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007), After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007 (2009,…

Rachael Weaver is an ARC Future Fellow in English at the University of Tasmania and a 2024 Visiting Scholar at the State Library of New South Wales. She is the author of The Criminal of the Century (2006) and, with Ken Gelder, The Colonial Journals, and the emergence of Australian literary culture (2014), Colonial Australian…