Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s

Combining literary criticism with book history, Carter and Osborne explore how Australian authors and their books fared in the US market from the 1840s through to the 1940s, most notably in the 1880s and 1890s and then between the two World Wars.

'...a genuinely important book ... a major and enduring contribution [to the field of book history]' - Paul Egger