Mup Anthology Of Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction
Author(s): Kenneth Gelder
Collects some of the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is the stuff of nightmare.
Product Information
Ken Gelder is a Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Melbourne. His books include Reading the Vampire (1994), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004) and Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007). He is also co-author, with Jane M. Jacobs, of Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (MUP 1998). Rachael Weaver is a research fellow in literary studies at the University of Melbourne. Her book, The Criminal of the Century, was published in 2006.
General Fields
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- : Melbourne University Press
- : Melbourne University Press
- : 354.0
- : July 2007
- : 210mm X 135mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kenneth Gelder
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823.0872908
- : 256
- : DQ