William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, and Barry Andrews
Over 3,000 entries
Foremost in its field, the second edition of The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature offers a comprehensive record of Australian writing from European settlement to the early 1990s. Written in clear, accessible language, the Companion contains entries on writers, plays, novels, poems, newspapers, journals, anthologies, literary prizes, movements, and professional organizations. It also includes useful plot summaries, detailed biographies, and a number of essay-length articles on key areas, such as Aboriginal writing and science fiction.
William H. Wilde Wilde is a former associate professor of English at the Faculty of Military Studies in Canberra; Joy Hooton is an associate professor of English at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra; Barry Andrews died in 1987; he was a senior lecturer in English at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
'The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature is a landmark', A. D. Hope, London Review of Books
ISBN: 019553381X
Publishing history: First published in 1985, this edition 1994
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