Colonials, Expatriates, Radicals, Moderns and Postmoderns

The 44 essays and other pieces collected in his book range from Adam Lindsay Gordon to Peter Corris, and include Eleanor Dark, Hal Porter, Christina Stead, Dal Stivens and A.B. Facey among many other creators of the unique body of literature Australians may claim as their own. The contribution Michael Wilding has made to the study of Australian literature, and to literary publishing in Australia and as a novelist in his own right, has been enormous.