Thomas Keneally''s Career and the Literary Machine

Thomas Keneally: world success story or Australian writer who never fulfilled early potential? 'Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine' explains the disparate opinions, charting his writing's production and reception as shaping a literary career. It tracks tensions between literary and commercial values, national and international expectations, celebrity status and literary reputation.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Beginnings; 2. The Collins Years; 3. To the Booker; 4. Afterwards; 5. Republic and Beyond; 6. Histories and Refugees; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Paul Sharrad, Senior Fellow in English, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia, has published widely on postcolonial literatures.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Sharrad
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781785270970
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-097-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Anthem Studies in Australian L; Anthem Studies in Australian L; Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies