Writing the Colonial Adventure by Robert Dixon - 1996

Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1995. Softcover. Very Good. Size: 8"-9" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Writers and Writing; ISBN: 0521484391. ISBN/EAN: 9780521484398. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 46815. . 9780521484398

Melbourne: Cambridge U. P., 1995. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. softback with stiff wrappers 228pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, ÔExplores the popular 19th century stories which locate Australia (along with Africa, India & the Pacific Islands) as a site of men's adventures. This 'ripping yarns' used bush-ranging, espionage, invasion and the discover of 'lost worlds' to promote their imperialist ideologies. Presentation copy signed by Robert Dixon on the half-title page

Cambridge University Press, 1995. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780521484398

Cambridge Univ Pr, 1995. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 8.90x6.00x0.80 inches.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Writing the Colonial Adventure: Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875 1914.

Cambridge University Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Paperback / softback. New. This book is an exploration of popular late nineteenth-century texts. Robert Dixon looks at a selection of adventure/romance writers whose narrative themes, he argues, captured many aspects of imperial ideology. Here is an original approach to popular fiction, both for its own sake and as a mode of cultural history.

Melbourne: Cambridge U. P., 1995. 1st edition. As New. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 228pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, ÔExplores the popular 19th century stories which locate Australia (along with Africa, India & the Pacific Islands) as a site of men's adventures. This 'ripping yarns' used bush-ranging, espionage, invasion and the discover of 'lost worlds' to promote their imperialist ideologies. Scarce in hardcover