Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Adelaide as Literary City: Introduction
- 1 Acts of Writing
- 2 A Colonial Wordsmith: George Isaacs in Adelaide, 1860–1870
- 3 Scots and Scottish Literature in Literary Adelaide
- 4 ‘An entertaining young genius’: C.J. Dennis and Adelaide
- 5 Adelaide Around 1935: Stories of Herself When Young
- 6 Adelaide and the Country: the Literary Dimension
- 7 ‘Fearful Affinity’: Jindyworobak Primitivism
- 8 The Athens of the South
- 9 Max Harris: a Phenomenal Adelaide Literary Figure
- 10 Geoffrey Dutton: Little Adelaide and New York Nowhere
- 11 A Coffee With Ken: Ken Bolton's Adelaide
- 12 ‘A Dozy City’: Adelaide in J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man and Amy T. Matthews's End of the Night Girl
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Adelaide as Literary City: Introduction
- 1 Acts of Writing
- 2 A Colonial Wordsmith: George Isaacs in Adelaide, 1860–1870
- 3 Scots and Scottish Literature in Literary Adelaide
- 4 ‘An entertaining young genius’: C.J. Dennis and Adelaide
- 5 Adelaide Around 1935: Stories of Herself When Young
- 6 Adelaide and the Country: the Literary Dimension
- 7 ‘Fearful Affinity’: Jindyworobak Primitivism
- 8 The Athens of the South
- 9 Max Harris: a Phenomenal Adelaide Literary Figure
- 10 Geoffrey Dutton: Little Adelaide and New York Nowhere
- 11 A Coffee With Ken: Ken Bolton's Adelaide
- 12 ‘A Dozy City’: Adelaide in J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man and Amy T. Matthews's End of the Night Girl
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- AdelaideA Literary City, pp. i - ivPublisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2013