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'There is an identifiable 'archive' of colonial Australian popular fiction consisting of
romance, adventure fiction, Gothic fiction, crime fiction, Lemurian fantasy and a
significant number of related subgenres (bushranger fiction, convict romance, Pacific
or 'South Sea' adventure, tropical romance, 'lost explorer' stories, and so on).
Looking at this archive soon reveals both its sheer size and range, and the fact that so
little of it is remembered today. Rachael Weaver, Ailie Smith and I have begun to
build a digital archive of colonial Australian popular fiction with the primary aim of
making this material available to an interested reading public, as well as to scholars
specialising in colonial Australian (and transnational) literary studies. At the time of
writing we are really only about 20% complete with around 500 authors represented
on the site, although many with only a fraction of their work uploaded and with only
the bare bones of a scholarly apparatus around them: a few short biographical notes, a
bibliography, and the texts themselves: first editions in most cases.' (Author's introduction, p. 1)
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Negotiating the Colonial Australian Popular Fiction Archive
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Subjects:
- Colonial Australian Popular Fiction : A Digital Archive 2009- website bibliography
- The Attitude of the Commonwealth Towards a National Literature 1906 single work essay
- 'I shall tell just such stories as I please' : Mary Fortune and the Australian Journal 2007 single work criticism
- Randolph Bedford in Italy 1990 single work criticism
- Settler Romances and the Australian Girl 2004 multi chapter work criticism
- Writing the Colonial Adventure : Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914 1995 single work criticism
- Out of England : Literary Subjectivity in the Australian Colonies, 1788-1867 2004 single work criticism
- Too Far Everywhere : The Romantic Heroine in Nineteenth-Century Australia 1998 multi chapter work criticism
- Dead Men's Tales 1898 selected work short story
- Index to Serials in Australian Periodicals and Newspapers : Nineteenth Century 2001 single work index
- A History of Australian Literature, Pure and Applied : A Critical Review of All Forms of Literature Produced in Australia from the First Books Published After the Arrival of the First Fleet Until 1950, with Short Accounts of Later Publications Up to 1960 1961 single work criticism
- Marcus Clarke's Bohemia : Literature and Modernity in Colonial Melbourne 2004 single work criticism
- Australia's England, 1880-1950 2009 single work criticism
- The Luck of the Leura 1907 selected work short story
- A History with Indexes of The Lone Hand 1977 single work criticism
- To Try Her Fortune in London : Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity 2001 single work criticism
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