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A world of fiction : digital collections and the future of literary history

Bode, Katherine, author

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\"The title for this book, \"a World of Fiction,\" has three meanings, and these have continued to underpin and shape the book. The most straightforward concerns the global origins of fiction in nineteenth-century Australian newspapers. While British, Australian, and American works dominate, and have been my focus, these newspapers include fiction from many other places: Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and more. An even wider range of geographical locations are evoked in the inscription of stories, which are presented as coming from the above countries and far beyond: Belgium, Burma, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, the list goes on. This sheer multitude of origins, real and inscribed--and the frequency of global voyages in these stories--indicates a pronounced geographical focus in the creation, publication, and reception of colonial newspaper fiction. Given that many of the original readers for these stories would have recently arrived in the colonies from elsewhere, this global consciousness suggests the role that newspaper fiction played in connecting new, Australian spaces and lives to preexisting conceptions of the world and readers' place in it\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Subject: Serialized fiction History and criticism. / Fiction Publishing Australia History 19th century. / Australian newspapers History 19th century. / Books and reading Australia History 19th century. / Literature Research Methodology. / Literature Data processing.
• ISBN: 9780472130856

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN3448.S48 B63 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE