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This is the first comprehensive documentation and critical appraisal of the fascinating range of German literary responses to the Fifth Continent prior to colonisation and to watersheds in Australia's social history during the first 130 years of white settlement. The literature surveyed encompasses emigration handbooks, diaries, travelogues, exotic romance, adventure narratives, juvenile fiction and utopian extravaganzas, as well as a modest corpus of devotional, lyric and polemic verse in anthologies, German-Australian newspaper feuilletons and prisoner-of-war weeklies. Featuring among the better known authors are Therese Huber, Amalie Schoppe, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Sophie Wörishöffer, Friedrich Mader and Paul Scheerbart. But equal prominence is given to versatile 'migrant' writers such as Theodor Müller and Stefan von Kotze.
"...the volume amply fulfils its attempt to do justice to the first 160 years of German preconceptions, perceptions and observations about Australia." (Vivian Smith, Australian Literary Studies)
"The author has approached the subject from a broad perspective of socio-cultural research... He does not hesitate to make qualitative judgements based on aesthetic and formalistic criteria. ... A multi-dimensional comparative literary study in imagology emerges. In contrast to the few previous studies on the subject, Corkhill's encompasses a wider scope of materials..." (Nedret Pínar Kuran, Literary Research-Recherche littéraire)
"The author has approached the subject from a broad perspective of socio-cultural research... He does not hesitate to make qualitative judgements based on aesthetic and formalistic criteria. ... A multi-dimensional comparative literary study in imagology emerges. In contrast to the few previous studies on the subject, Corkhill's encompasses a wider scope of materials..." (Nedret Pínar Kuran, Literary Research-Recherche littéraire)