Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters-heroes and villains-as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the eighteenth century until today. ...

Tom Morison is a reluctant freeholder in South Australia and unsuited to farming. But Tom is redeemed when his education in geology and chemistry finally gives the family their best Christmas ever – a ‘golden’ one. In this and eight other ‘lost’ stories of goldmining in colonial-era Australia, a colourful cast of characters star in stories of love and crime, loyalty and betrayal, spirituality and avarice. And the eternal lure of gold and its corrupting influence are ever-present.As...

O amor não é cego, apenas um pouco difícil de verSadie Montgomery nunca imaginou o que estava por vir… Em um minuto, ela está celebrando sua maior conquista ao se tornar finalista do concurso anual da North American Portrait Society. No outro, está deitada em um leito de hospital com um diagnóstico de prosopagnosia, popularmente conhecida como "cegueira facial".Imagine que você está lendo um livro de cabeça para baixo em um idioma desconhecido. Pois é, é assim com que se parece a nova real...

Uma guarda-costas viciada em trabalho. Um astro de Hollywood recluso. Quatro semanas fingindo que estão apaixonados. Hannah Brooks parece mais uma professora de jardim de infância do que alguém que poderia te matar com um abridor de vinho. Ou com uma caneta esferográfica. Ou com um guardanapo de pano. Mas a verdade é que ela é uma Agente de Proteção Executiva (também conhecida como "guarda-costas") contratada para proteger um astro de Hollywood que está sofrendo nas mãos de uma stalker de ...

Christmas in fiction – a time when families reunite and love blossoms, when evil is overcome and tragedy is averted. Cruelty and revenge are offset by heroism and forgiveness, and constancy in love is rewarded. But in Australia Christmas stories are also marked by fire and flood, cyclone and drought, and the perils of isolation. Cattle drovers find themselves stuck in a gumtree, a pitiless squatter learns the cost of cruelty, and love’s ‘cooee’ is heard as far away as London. All the drama...

Nell has a friend in need but will her kind heart wreck her chance for future happiness? A meddlesome prank and a stray kitten bring Helen and Gabriel together but will he be able to admit his feelings? When Lily goes missing will Archibald trust his wife or listen to the ‘evidence’ of family friends? Is Marie’s runaway kookaburra the last straw or the answer to her problems? Will Teresa’s faith in the Madonna bring her beloved Carlo home safely from the coral fishing?Catherine Mar...

This collection provides the first comprehensive account of eResearch and the new empiricism as they are transforming the field of Australian literary studies in the twenty-first century. These effects are especially evident in the exponential expansion of the online research environment, the rise of book history, print culture studies, the history of reading and publishing, and in the resulting transformation of Australian literary criticism and history.The essays range from accou...