English Studies Publications
This is a selection of recent and forthcoming books published by current and recent members of the English Section of the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies. A selected listing of recent articles published by English Studies academics is also available.
Monographs
- Michael
Ackland, Henry
Kendall: The Man and the Myths. The Miegunyah
Press, Melboume, 1995.
- ---, That Shining Band: A Study of Australian Colonial Verse Tradition. Queensland University Press, 1994.
- ---, Damaged Men: The Precarious Lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart . Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2001
- Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Philip Ayres, Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-CenturyEngland . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
- ---, Mawson: A Life. The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 1999.
- Elaine Barry, Fabricating the Self: The Fictions of Jessica Anderson. University of Queensland Press, 1992.
- Kevin Foster, Fighting Fictions: War, Narrative and National Identity . Pluto Press, London, 1999.
- Robin Gerster, Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing. Rev. edn, C, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992. (The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 1988)
- --- [and J Bassett], Seizures of Youth: The Sixties and Australia . Hyland House, Melbourne, 1991.
- ---, Legless
in Ginza: Orientating Japan. Melbourne University
Press, Melbourne, 1999.
- Peter Groves, Strange Music: The Metre of the English Heroic Line. (English Literary Studies Monograph Series), ELS, Victoria, B.C., 1998
- Kevin Hart, The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction, Theology, and Philosophy . 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991; exp. ed., New York: Fordham University Press, 2000.
- ---, A D Hope. (Australian Writers Series) Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992.
- ---, Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
- ---, How to Read a Page of Boswell (Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2000)
- Harold Love, Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-century England. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993; pbk reprint by University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
- ---, Cambridge Univesity Press, Cambridge,
2002.
- ---, English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702, Oxford University Press, New York, 2004
- Rose Lucas and Lyn McCreddin, Bridgings: Readings in Australian Women's Poetry. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996.
- Brian McFarlane, Novel to Film: Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996.
- Brian McFarlane [and G J Mayer], New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.
- ---, An Autobiography of British Cinema. Methuen, London, 1997.
- ---, The Films of Lance Comfort. Manchester University Press, 1999.
- Pauline Nestor, Jane Eyre. (Critical Studies of Key Texts) Harvester/Wheatsheaf, London, 1992.
- ---, George
Eliot: Critical Issues. (Palgrave, 2002).
- Brenda Niall, Georgiana: a Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer . Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1994. (Winner of the Fellowship of Australian Writers Australian Unity Award, 1994; Winner of the 1995 Victorian Premier's Literary Award (Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction)
- ---, The Boyds A Family Biography. Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 2002
- Clive Probyn, The Sociable Humanist: The Life and Works of James Harris 1709-80: Provincial and Metropolitan Culture in Eighteenth-century England. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991.
- ---, English Poetry. 2nd edn, Longman, London, 1991.
- ---, English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century: 1700-1789. 2nd edn, Longman, London, 1992.
- Heather
Scutter, Displaced
Fictions: Contemporary Australian Books for Teenagers and Young Adults
. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1999.
- Jennifer Strauss, Boundary Conditions: The Poetry of Gwen Harwood. University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1992.
- ---, Judith Wright. (Australian Writers Series) Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1995.
- Terry Threadgold, Feminist Poetics: Poiesis, Performance, Histories. Routledge, London, 1997.
Scholarly Editions
- Michael Ackland, Henry Kendall: Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence. University of Queensland Press, 1992.
- Philip Ayres, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury,(2 vols), Oxford University Press, 1999
- Robin Gerster, Hotel Asia: An Anthology of Australian Literary Travelling to "The East". Penguin, Melbourne, 1995.
- Robin Gerster [and Peter Pierce], On the Warpath: An Anthology of Australian Military Travel , Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2004.
- Peter Groves and Geoffrey Hiller,English Character-Books of the Renaissance: An Anthology. Pegasus Press, Asheville, NC, forthcoming 2005.
- Geoffrey Hiller, Poems of the Elizabethan Age: An Anthology. 2nd edn. Methuen, London: 1990
- ---
and Peter Groves, Samuel
Daniel: Selected Poems and A Defense of Rhyme.
Pegasus Press Asheville, NC, 1998.
- Chandani Lokuge, India Calling: The Memoirs of Cornelia Sorabji, India's First Woman Barrister. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2001.
- ---, Saguna: The First Autobiographical Novel in English by an Indian Woman (by Krupabai Satthianadhan). Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1998
- ---, Kamala: The Story of a Hundu Life (by Krupabai Satthianadhan). Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1998
- Harold Love, The Penguin Book of Restoration Verse . 2nd revised edn., 1997.
- ---, The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Oxford University Press, 1999. See addenda and corrigenda to this edition.
- Pauline Nestor, Wuthering Heights. Penguin, London, 1995. Forthcoming in Penguin Classics.
- ---, Can You Forgive Her. Everyman, 1994.
- Clive Probyn [and M C Battestin], The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993.
- Clive Probyn and Bruce Steele, eds,Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson. Queensland University Press, 1997.
- ---, The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson. Queensland University Press, 2001.
- ---, Niels Lyhne (Sirens' Voices) by Henry Handel Richardson, a translation of J. P. Jacobsen's Niels Lyhne (1880), Australian Scholarly Publishing. Melbourne, 2003.
- The Young Cosima, Australian Scholarly Publishing. Melbourne, 2004
- ---, with Rachel Solomon
and Patrick O'Neill, The
Collected Correspondence of Henry Handel Richardson.
Melbourne University Press, 2000.
- Bruce Steele, England My England and Other Stories. (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.
- ---, Kangaroo . (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994.
- ---, Psychoanalysis & the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, forthcoming.
- Bruce Steele and Richard Divall, Henry Handel Richardson: The Music . 2 vols. ed. Melbourne: The Marshall-Hall Trust, 2000.
- ---, Songs by Henry Handel Richardson for Voice and Piano. Currency Press, Sydney, 2000.
Miscellaneous
- Michael Ackland (ed.), The Penguin Book of Nineteenth Century Australian Literature. Penguin, Melbourne, 1993.
- Kevin Hart, New and Selected Poems. Harper Collins, Sydney, 1995.
- ---, The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994.
- ---, Wicked Heat. Paper Bark Press, Melbourne, 1999.
- ---, Flame Tree: Selected Poems, Newcastle (UK), Bloodaxe Books, 2001.
- Chandani Lokuge, Moth and Other Stories. Dangaroo Press, 1992.
- ---,
If the Moon Smiled, Penguin Books, Ringwood,
2000.
- Brenda Niall, The Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays . Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997.
- --- and John Thompson, The Oxford Book of Australian Letters . Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998.