Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. The romance of property: Rolf Boldrewood and Walter Scott -- 2. Outlaws and lawmakers: Boldrewood, Praed and the ethics of adventure -- 3. Israel in Egypt: the significance of Australian captivity narratives -- 4. Imperial romance: King Solomon's Mines and Australian romance -- 5. The new woman and the coming man: gender and genre in the 'lost-race' romance -- 6. The other world: Rosa Praed's occult novels -- 7. The boundaries of civility: Australia, Asia and the Pacific -- 8. Imagined invasions: The Lone Hand and narratives of Asiatic invasion -- 9. The colonial city: crime fiction and empire -- 10. Beyond adventure: Louis Becke -- Conclusion
Summary
Discusses the representation of race and Aboriginality (chapters 3 and 4); Lemurian novels; racial anxiety in Fevenc's 'The Secret of the Australian Desert', Scott's 'The Last Lemurian', Macdonald's 'The Lost Explorers' and Walker's 'The Silver Queen' - anxiety of identity loss and racial degeneration, cannibalism as metaphor for colonialism; gender and race in Hennessey's 'An Australian Bush Track' and Praed's 'Fugitive Anne'; degrees of the grotesque in the depiction of race and national identity
