Rushdie Annotated: Definitive explanations of all obscure references in the Salman Rushdie corpus and extended critical commentaries on the author. In an Australia where the literary work of art now attends to issues which are multicultural, this reference text on Rushdie would show how crucial the creative use of language is in the formation of cultural identity. As a key spokesperson for liberal values, Rushdie and his works are informed by those communal values which have a direct bearing on ....Rushdie Annotated: Definitive explanations of all obscure references in the Salman Rushdie corpus and extended critical commentaries on the author. In an Australia where the literary work of art now attends to issues which are multicultural, this reference text on Rushdie would show how crucial the creative use of language is in the formation of cultural identity. As a key spokesperson for liberal values, Rushdie and his works are informed by those communal values which have a direct bearing on definitions of the Australian nation state. Ongoing debates in Australia about citizenship in a globalized world, about the relative autonomy of the literary work of art, about the links between culture and religion find valuable expression in Rushdie's works.Read moreRead less
Recreating Mansfield Park: the Cambridge Edition of Jane Austen's Novel. The project will produce an authoritative edition of the English writer Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park in the Cambridge Edition. This is a collaborative and international project, and the first fully scholarly edition of Austen's novels. It is designed to meet the needs of the twenty-first century student of her work, be accessible to readers in different continents, and have a shelf-life of several decades. The editi ....Recreating Mansfield Park: the Cambridge Edition of Jane Austen's Novel. The project will produce an authoritative edition of the English writer Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park in the Cambridge Edition. This is a collaborative and international project, and the first fully scholarly edition of Austen's novels. It is designed to meet the needs of the twenty-first century student of her work, be accessible to readers in different continents, and have a shelf-life of several decades. The edition of Mansfield Park in the series will present a thoroughly revised and accurate text and for the first time give a complete textual and cultural history of this famous novel.Read moreRead less
The Cultural Impact of Irregular Marriage in the Age of British Colonialism, 1660-c.1860. Marriage has always been central to our understanding of relations between literature, society and culture. This project significantly revises that understanding by focussing on the irregular marriage practices which thrived in Britain and its colonies from 1660 to c.1860. It demonstrates, for instance, how the novel genre became respectable partly by marginalising irregular marriages; how Gretna Green we ....The Cultural Impact of Irregular Marriage in the Age of British Colonialism, 1660-c.1860. Marriage has always been central to our understanding of relations between literature, society and culture. This project significantly revises that understanding by focussing on the irregular marriage practices which thrived in Britain and its colonies from 1660 to c.1860. It demonstrates, for instance, how the novel genre became respectable partly by marginalising irregular marriages; how Gretna Green weddings came to typify modern romance in drama and fiction; and how marriage regulations underpinned literary portrayals of civil society in the Australian penal colony. It will deliver a groundbreaking monograph which accounts for marriage's role in modern literary culture in new terms.Read moreRead less