Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character
types appeared - and disappeared - in Australian literature: the
swagman, the larrikin, the colonial detective, the bushranger, the
'currency lass', the squatter, and more. Some had a powerful
influence on the colonies' developing sense of identity; others
were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and
reflecting the social and economic circumstances of life in the
colonies.In Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social
Formations and the Colonial Economy, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
explore the genres in which these characters flourished: the
squatter novel, the bushranger adventure, colonial detective
stories, the swagman's yarn, the Australian girl's romance. Authors
as diverse as Catherine Helen Spence, Rosa Praed, Henry Kingsley,
Anthony Trollope, Henry Lawson, Miles Franklin, Barbara Baynton,
Rolf Boldrewood, Mary Fortune and Marcus Clarke were fascinated by
colonial character types, and brought them vibrantly to life.As
this book shows, colonial Australian character types are fluid,
contradictory and often unpredictable. When we look closely, they
have the potential to challenge our assumptions about fiction,
genre and national identity.
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