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Acknowledgments
Parts of some of these chapters have been published in earlier versions in several journals: a small part of the Introduction appeared in the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL) (2010); another short section of chapter 4 appeared in Australian Literary Studies (1991); sections of chapter 5 appeared in Australian Literary Studies (2008) and Southerly (2008); and part of the Introduction and the Conclusion were published in Australian Book Review (2010). Permission to republish here is gratefully acknowledged. My work on this book has been greatly helped by grants and other forms of institutional support, in particular in the form of research leave and travel funding from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of New South Wales in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant through 2011. I am, moreover, indebted to my colleagues in the English program at UNSW, in particular Elizabeth McMahon and more recently Fiona Morrison; their spirited conversation and sage advice have helped me through the many impasses of this project and I can’t thank them enough. I have been the grateful beneficiary of comments and advice from colleagues outside my university who read and commented on this work, and would like in particular to acknowledge Brigid Rooney, Nic Birns and Kate Livett, as well as my research assistants Laura Joseph and