Australian literature - Overseas publishing
Articles
- Authors, Editors, Publishers: Katharine Susannah Prichard and W. W. Norton
P.R. Stephensen observed that: ‘Americans are interested in us’ and instances of this interest on the part of writers, readers and publishers abound, stretching as…
1 October 2006 - A.G. Stephens’s ‘Bookfellow’ in New Zealand
A well-known gap in the bibliography of A.G. Stephens, literary editor of the Bulletin and of that paper's short-lived venture into publishing a literary monthly…
1 October 1993 - ‘Another Fresh Australian Tale’: The American Publication of Catherine Martin’s The Silent Sea
That the novel readers of colonial Australia took an interest in American fiction was abundantly demonstrated in contemporary sources—from the many direct and indirect references…
1 October 1992 - Australian Literary and Scholarly Publishing in Its International Context
Discusses the state of the Australian publishing industry (in particular the demise of local firms) in the context of developments in publishing in the USA…
1 May 1999 - The English Publication of His Natural Life
Discusses new archival evidence regarding the first Bentley edition of For the Term of His Natural Life.
1 October 1982 - In the Club: Australian Crime Fiction in the USA 1943-1954
Carol Hetherington investigates the inclusion of Australian authors in Doubleday’s Crime Club lists in the period 1943-1954. She argues ‘that the important common factor in…
1 October 2012 - A Survey of Chinese Translation of Australian Literature
Provides a list and discussion of Australian literature translated for a Chinese readership.
1 October 1989 - The Mysterious Case of Carter Brown, or, Who Really Killed the Australian Author
Discusses the Horwitz Publications author 'Carter Brown' (Alan Geoffrey Yates), became the bestselling Australian novelists after his books were licensed to American publisher Signet. Argues…
1 October 2004 - The Reflexive Carter Brown, or the Prescience of Last Note for a Lovely
Despite Carter Brown’s status as the least known of Australia’s most successful authors, research has been done on his productions, his style, and his bibliography…
28 October 2021
Contributors
- P. D. Edwards
- Rosemary Foxton
- Carol Hetherington
- Carol Hetherington
- Wenzhong Hu
- Toni Johnson-Woods
- Brian Kiernan
- Alistair Rolls
- Clara Sitbon
- Michael Wilding