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**{::}Shortlisted for the Walter McRae Russell Award 2019{::}*****
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Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s explores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid-20th century to a much greater degree than previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational long before the contemporary period. In mapping Australian literature's connections to British and US markets, their research challenges established understandings of national, imperial and world literatures.
Carter and Osborne examine how Australian authors, editors and publishers engaged productively with their American counterparts, and how American readers and reviewers responded to Australian works. They consider the role played by British publishers and agents in taking Australian writing to America, and creating new opportunities for novelists to move between markets.
Some of these writers, such as Christina Stead and Patrick White, remain household names; others who once enjoyed international fame, such as Dale Collins and Alice Grant Rosman, have been largely forgotten. The story of their books in America reveals how culture, commerce and copyright law interacted to create both opportunities and obstacles for Australian writers.
Contents
List of figures
List of plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the two-sided triangle
1. Antipodean romance: Australian fiction and the American book trade in the 19th century
2. International reputations and transatlantic rights: Rosa Praed and Louis Becke
3. Crime, sensation and the modern genre system: Australian authors in the popular fiction marketplace, 1820s-1920s
4. Renegotiating the American connection: Australian fiction 1900-1930s
5. Mystery and romance: the market for light fiction between the wars
6. Becoming articulate: Henry Handel Richardson and Katharine Susannah Prichard
7. 'Australia is very American': Australian historical fiction in America 1920s-1940s
8. 'Australian moderns': Christina Stead and Patrick White in New York
9. Bestsellers, modest sellers and commercial failures: the postwar years
Epilogue: completing the triangle
Works cited
Index
