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Cities and towns in literature.
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Dedication: For my mother and father who worked so hard to achieve their dream, a home in the suburbs - the home where I grew up and was happy.
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Epigraph: 'It's an excess of virtue that has produced suburbia, the desire of man not to be a wanderer on the face of the earth, but to have a kingdom of his own.' -- Bruce Dawe
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Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Dangaroo Press
, 1992 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Introduction : Changing the Lens of Attention, single work criticism (p. vi-x)
- The Puzzle of Governor Phillip's Two Plans, single work criticism (p. 1-11)
- City Limits, single work criticism (p. 12-18)
- Gerrymander : The Place of Suburbia in Australian Fiction, single work criticism (p. 19-30)
- City and Bush in the Australian Theatre 1922-1988, single work criticism (p. 31-47)
- Views of the Harbour : The Empty City in Contemporary Australian Drama, single work criticism (p. 48-57)
- Colonial Poet to City Theorist? Michael Dransfield's Incomplete Evolution, single work criticism (p. 58-75)
- Catherine Helen Spence : City Woman, single work criticism (p. 131-141)
- Gentlemen and Mechanics : Public Libraries and Reading in Colonial Adelaide, 1836-1884, single work criticism (p. 142-152)
- The Mechanic and the Artist : Joseph Furphy and John Longstaff as Fellow-Townsmen, single work criticism (p. 153-165)
- The Search for a Colonial Metropolis : Martin Boyd and the Myth of the Noble Settler, single work criticism (p. 166-175)
- Myths of Innocence and Experience, single work criticism (p. 238-253)
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