It’s complicated: Towards a history of fiction circulation and republication in 20th-century Australian Newspapers

With few exceptions, Australian literary history would lead us to believe that periodical fiction in this country followed the pattern of the major Anglophone markets of Britain and the United States of America, where such publishing and the syndication agencies that largely enabled it are understood as 19th-century phenomena. Key to this temporality, especially in Britain, were changes in the book trade, especially the decline of expensive multi-volume editions (intended for circulating libraries) and presence of cheap paperback books. More specifically in these countries, periodical fiction is understood to have moved from newspapers to magazines in the 20th century, to become the practice of experimental or avant-garde literary writers and readers. Accordingly, discussion of Australian newspaper fiction is almost entirely limited to the 19th century, including in the recently published Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, while the small number of accounts of 20th-century periodical fiction focus on literary magazines.

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Histories of Content Reuse in the Periodical Press Symposium

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