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Article: A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900.(Book review)
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- Australian Literary Studies
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- April 1, 2009
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A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900, edited by Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2007. Hardcover, $90.
A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900 offers a fresh perspective on Australian literature. This thought-provoking companion is edited by two North American scholars (many will be familiar with Nicholas Birns as the editor of Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature) and eschews the 'self-congratulatory perspective often taken when discussing the general course of Australian literary history' (1). In their introductory essay, the editors clearly mark out the particular ...