CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Introduction: Matters of Genre and Gender 1 Chapter 1: Investigating Masculinities: Novels of Mystery and Detection 12 Untangling the Past 17 Dad's the Word 25 Uncanny Places 31 Conclusion 37 Chapter 2: Young Anzacs: Engaging with War History 39 Returning to the Bush 44 The Tragic Hero 47 Past Parallels 56 Conclusion 64 Chapter 3: Life Lessons: Navigating Crisis in Novels of Development 66 Driving Lessons 71 Querying Compulsory Heterosexuality 79 Maintaining Class Behaviour 86 Conclusion 89 Chapter 4: Fools in Love: Orienting Happiness in Comedic Novels 91 Fake It Until You Nearly Make It 96 Accommodating Humour 102 Looking at Happiness 108 Conclusion 114 Chapter 5: Still Human: Survival in Post-Disaster Fiction 116 Maintaining Your Humanity 120 Reordering Bodies 130 Quest for Purpose 136 Conclusion 141 Chapter 6: Marvellous Bodies: Humanism and Action Science Fiction 142 Thrilling Bodies, Humanist Ideals 147 The Price of Being Superhuman 153 Disabling the Body 159 Conclusion 164 Conclusion: Constraints and Choices 166 Bibliography 170 Index 189 ukryj opis