Michael Wilding (writer)

Gangan Verlag book launch at the Goethe-Institut Sydney (1991)

Michael Wilding (born 1942) is a British-born writer and academic who has spent most of his career at the University of Sydney, where he has been an emeritus professor in English and Australian literature since 2002.

Early life and education

Michael Wilding was born in 1942 in Worcester, England, and read English at Oxford University, where he graduated in 1963 with BA with first-class honours.

Academic career

Wilding took up an appointment as assistant lecturer at the University of Sydney in 1963, where he stayed for three years. He returned to England in 1967, where he attained his M.A., and took up a lectureship at the University of Birmingham.

In 1969 he took up a post as senior lecturer at Sydney University, then becoming Reader in English from 1973 to 1992. He received the degree of D. Litt. from the University of Sydney in 1993. In 1993 he was appointed Professor of English and Australian Literature at Sydney, a position he held until his retirement in 2000, after which he was made professor emeritus.

His scholarly work focused especially on 17th-century and early 18th-century English literature, such as by the poet John Milton, and Australian literature such as by Marcus Clarke, William Lane, Christina Stead).

Writing career

He was a creative writer in the "new writing" movement, whose members were influential in revitalising Australian literature. His work was later described as "exciting and innovative" by Ross Fitzgerald in The Australian.

He has published many novels and short story collections, and has had his stories published widely in anthologies. His most widely referenced work has been the short story magazine, Tabloid Story, which he co-founded with Frank Moorhouse and Carmel Kelly in 1972 and which ran for 33 issues, until 1974.

BOOKS FICTION

Aspects of the Dying Process, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1972, 116 pp. ISBN: 0 7022 0734 9 (hb); 0 7022 0762 4 (pb)

Living Together, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1974, 193 pp. ISBN: 0 7022 0895 7 (hb); 0 7022 0896 5 (pb) Serbo-Croat translation by David Albahari, Decje Novine, Belgrade, 1985

The Short Story Embassy: a Novel, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1975, 124 pp. ISBN: 0 909331 06 5 (pb)

The West Midland Underground, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1975, 205 pp. ISBN: 0 7022 0990 2 (hb); 0 7022 0991 0 (pb)

Scenic Drive, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1976, 99 pp. ISBN: 0 909 331 12 X (pb)

The Phallic Forest, Wild & Woolley, Sydney; John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1978, 139 pp. ISBN: AUS: 0 909331 50 2 (hb); 0 909331 51 0 (pb); NZ 0 908565 55 0 (hb); 0 908565 54 2 (pb)

Noc Na Orgiji, izbor i prevod David Albahari, Kultura, Beograd, 1982, 88 pp. (Selected stories)

Pacific Highway, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1982, 159 pp. ISBN: 0 908094 86 8 (hb); 0 908094 87 6 (pb)

Reading the Signs, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1984, 284 pp. ISBN 0 86806 118 2 (hb); 0 86806 119 0 (pb)

The Man of Slow Feeling: Selected Short Stories, Penguin, Ringwood, 1985, 305 pp. ISBN: 0 14 008588 2 (pb)

Under Saturn, Black Swan: Transworld, Sydney, 1988, 239 pp. ISBN 0 947189 41 6 (pb)

Great Climate, Faber & Faber, London, 1990, 147 pp. ISBN 0 571 14428 4 (hb)

Her Most Bizarre Sexual Experience, W.W. Norton, New York, 1991, 147 pp. ISBN 0 393 02992 1 (hb) (USA edition of preceding title)

This is for You, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1994, 166 pp. ISBN: 0 207 18425 9 (pb)

Book of the Reading, Paper Bark Press, Sydney, 1994, 44 pp. ISBN: 0 9587 801 9 6 (pb)

Somewhere New: New & Selected Stories, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton; McBride's Books, Colwall, 1996, 218 pp. ISBN: 1 875998 15 2 (pb) Punjabi translation by Tejpal Singh, Kition Nawan, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2001, 271 pp. ISBN 81-260-1350-8 (pb)

Wildest Dreams, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1998, viii + 310 pp. ISBN: 0 7022 3019 7 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

A Whisper from the Forest, selected stories, Japanese translation by Sokushin Ezawa, Seizansa, Tokyo, 1999, 207 pp.

Academia Nuts, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 2002, 237 pp. ISBN 0 909331 94 4 (pb); second enlarged edition, 2003 Academia.edu Internet archive

Wild Amazement, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton; Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2006, 176 pp. ISBN Aus: 1 876780 83 5; UK 1 904886 35 3 (pb). Italian translation by Aldo Magagnino, Con Folle Stupore, Edizioni Controluce, 2008, 240pp. ISBN 978-88-6280-003-7 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

National Treasure, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2007; 240 pp. ISBN 1 921 274 00X (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

Superfluous Men, Arcadia, Melbourne, 2009, x + 337 pp. ISBN 9781921 509476 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

The Prisoner of Mount Warning, Press On / Arcadia, Melbourne, 2010; 240 pp. ISBN 9781921 509568 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

The Magic of It, Press On / Arcadia, Melbourne, 2011, viii + 344 pp. ISBN 9781921 875373 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

Asian Dawn, Press On / Arcadia, Melbourne, 2013, x + 226 pp. ISBN 9781921 875397 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

In the Valley of the Weed, Arcadia, Melbourne, 2016, viii + 278 pp. ISBN 9781925 333978 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

Little Demon, Arcadia, Melbourne, 2018, viii + 259 pp. ISBN 9781925 588736 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

The Travel Writer, Arcadia, Melbourne, 2018, viii + 216 pp. ISBN 9781925 801378 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

The Midlands, and Leaving Them, Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2021, viii + 149 pp. ISBN 9781912 524730 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

Find Me My Enemies, and Cover Story, Arcadia, Melbourne, 2023, 406 pp. ISBN: 978-1-922952-03-5 (pb). Academia.edu

DOCUMENTARIES

The Paraguyan Experiment, Penguin, Ringwood and Harmondsworth, 1984, 212 pp. ISBN: 0 14 007360 4 (pb.) Bengali translation, by Geeta Sen, Papyrus, Calcutta, 1995, 205 pp (hb) Japanese translation, by Sokushin Ezawa, Asahi Shimbun Publications, Tokyo, 2016, 400 pp. ISBN: 9784021002519 (pb)

Raising Spirits, Making Gold, and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly, Shoestring Press, Nottingham; Abbott Bentley, Sydney, 1999, x + 495 pp. ISBN: (Aus) 0 958609 12 8; (UK) 1 899579 31 5 / 1 899549 31 5 (pb) Revised second edition,: The True Adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly: Raising Spirits, Making Gold, and Swapping Wives, forthcoming Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall, a Documentary, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2014, viii + 580 pp. ISBN 978-1-925003-80-2 (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

NON-FICTION Milton’s Paradise Lost, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1969, 128 pp. SBN: 424 05850 2 (hb) Open Library

Cultural Policy in Great Britain, with Michael Green, in consultation with Richard Hoggart, (Unesco, Paris, 1970) 62 pp. (pb) Academia.edu Internet archive

Marcus Clarke,(Australian Writers & Their Work series) Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1977, 52 pp. ISBN: 0 19 550508 5 (pb) Political Fictions, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Boston, 1980, xii + 266 pp. ISBN: 0 7100 0457 5 (hb) Reissued, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1984, ISBN: 0 86806 115 8 (hb) Reissued, Routledge, Routledge Revivals, 2024, ISBN 9781032700504 (hb); ebook, ISBN 9781032700601 Open Library Internet Archive

Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution, Oxford University Press: The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987, 280 pp. ISBN: 0 19 812881 9 (hb) Recent Australian Fiction: Janette Turner Hospital and Don’o Kim, Australian Studies Centre Working Papers, 29, London, 1988, 17 pp. (pb)

The Radical Tradition: Lawson, Furphy, Stead, (The Colin Roderick Lectures, 1992) Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, Townsville, 1993, 82 pp. ISBN: 0 86443 459 6 (pb) Academia.edu Internet Archive

Social Visions, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 8, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney, 1993, vi + 186 pp. ISBN: 0949 405 06 X (pb); ISSN 0812-6402 Academia.edu Internet Archive

Studies in Classic Australian Fiction, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 16, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney; Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 1997, 231 pp. ISBN: 0 949405 13 2 (pb); ISSN 0812-6402 Academia.edu Internet Archive Wild About Books: Essays on Books and Writing, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2019, x + 194 pp. ISBN 9781 925801 989 (pb) Academia.edu Internet Archive

Marcus Clarke: Novelist, Journalist and Bohemian, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2021, viii + 295 pp. ISBN 9781922454430 (pb) Academia.edu Internet Archive

Colonials, Expatriates, Radicals, Moderns and Postmoderns: Essays in Australian Literature, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2024, viii + 300 pp. ISBN 9781923068766 (pb)

Radical Milton, Satirical Dryden, in preparation

MEMOIRS

Among Leavisites, privately printed, Sydney, 1999, 32 pp (limited edition of 157 copies) (unbound) Academia.edu

Wild and Woolley: A Publishing Memoir, Giramondo, Sydney, 2011, vi + 138 pp. ISBN 978-1-920882-74-7 (pb) Academia.edu Internet Archive Growing Wild, Arcadia, Melbourne, 2016, viii + 302 pp. ISBN 978-1-925333-10-7 (pb) Academia.edu Internet Archive

BOOKS EDITED AND INTRODUCED Edited with an introduction, Three Tales by Henry James, Hicks Smith, Sydney, 1967, 124 pp. (hb) Edited with Charles Higham, Australians Abroad, F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1967, xv + 211 pp. (hb & pb) Edited with an introduction, Marvell: Modern Judgements, Macmillan, London, 1969, 304 pp. (hb & pb); Aurora, Nashville, 1970, ISBN: 87695 089 6 (pb) Introduction to John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and the Tragedy of Marcus Brutus (Shakespeare Adaptations, second series) Cornmarket Press, London, 1970 (hb) Edited with Shirley Cass, Ros Cheney & David Malouf, We Took Their Orders and Are Dead, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1971, 256 pp. ISBN: 0 7254 0070 6 (hb & pb) Edited with an introduction, Marcus Clarke, (Portable Australian Authors series) University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1976, xxxii + 687 pp. ISBN: 0 7022 1171 0 (hb); 0 7022 1181 8 (pb) Second edition (Australian Authors series) 1988; ISBN: 0 7022 1181 8 (pb) Introduction reprinted in Colonials, Expatriates, Radicals, Moderns and Postmoderns Edited with an introduction with Stephen Knight, The Radical Reader, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1977, 239 pp. ISBN: 0 909331 28 6 (hb); 0 909331 26 X (pb)

Edited with an afterword, The Tabloid Story Pocket Book, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1978, 320 pp. ISBN: 0 909331 60 X (hb); 0 909331 61 8 (pb) Afterword reprinted in Bruce Bennett, ed., Crosscurrents; Magazines and Newspapers in Australian Literature, in Frank Moorhouse, ed., Days of Wine and Rage, in Growing Wild, Academia.edu

Introduction to The Workingman's Paradise, by William Lane, (Australian Literary reprints series) Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1980, 77 + 226 pp. ISBN: 0 424 00057 1 (pb); 2nd edition, 2004, 218 pp. ISBN: 1 920897 18 6 Introduction reprinted in Colonials, Expatriates, Radicals, Moderns and Postmoderns, Academia.edu Introduction to Life Rarely Tells by Jack Lindsay, Penguin, Ringwood & Harmondsworth, 1982, xvi + 826 pp. (pb) Introduction reprinted in Colonials, Expatriates, Radicals, Moderns and Postmoderns Academia.edu

Introduction to Stories by Marcus Clarke, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1983, xxx + 233 pp. ISBN: 0 86806 072 0 (hb); 0 86806 073 9 (pb) Introduction reprinted in Marcus Clarke Novelist

Foreword to The Art of the Story, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, 1989, x + 157, ISBN 9780642128966 (pb) pp v-vii Foreword reprinted in Wild About Books Academia.edu Edited with an introduction with Rudi Krausmann, Air Mail From Down Under: Zeitgenössische Literatur Australiens, volume 1–Short Stories, Gangan, Vienna, 1990, 159 pp. (in German). ISBN: 1 86336 000 X (AUS); 3 900530 19 X (Austria); (pb)

Edited with an introduction, The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994; OUP, London and New York, 1995, xvii + 349pp. Paperback edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1995; ISBN: 0 19 553610 X (hb); 0 19 557786 6 (pb) Open Library Edited with an introduction with Mabel Lee, History, Literature and Society: Essays in Honour of Professor S. N. Mukherjee, Manohar, New Delhi; Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 15, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney, 1997, 283 pp. ISBN: 81 7304 201 2 (hb) Introduction to Robert Yeo, Leaving Home, Mother: Selected Poems, Angsana Books, Singapore, 1999, 11-21 Academia.edu Introduction to The NSW Writers' Centre Journals Directory, 4th edition ed. Laurel Cohn, NSW Writers' Centre, Sydney, 2001, 5-8 (pb) Edited with David Myers, Best Stories Under the Sun, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2004, vi + 186 pp. ISBN: 1 876780 58 4 (pb) Edited with David Myers, Best Stories Under the Sun 2: Travellers' Tales, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2005. ISBN 1 876780 68 1 (pb) Edited with David Myers, Best Stories Under the Sun 3: Confessions and Memoirs, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2006, 240pp. ISBN: 1 876780 90 8 (pb)

Edited with an introduction with Laurie Hergenhan and Ken Stewart, Cyril Hopkins’ Marcus Clarke, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2009, xlviii + 339 pp. ISBN 978-1-921509-12-4 (pb) Academia.edu Internet Archive

Edited with an introduction with Peter Corris, Heart Matters, Viking, Melbourne, 2010, xvi + 262 pp. ISBN 978-0-670-07385-6 (pb)

Edited with an introduction with Nataša Kampmark, Priče Iz Bezvremene Zemlje, Agora, Zrenjanin, 2012, 248 pp. ISBN 9788660 53 1140 (hb)

Foreword to John Farrell, Poet, Journalist and Social Reformer 1851- 1904 by Paul Stenhouse, Australian Scholarly, Melbourne, 2018, ix-xvi, ISBN 9781925801279

Publishing

• Wilding was a founding editor of the University of Queensland Press's Asian & Pacific Writing series, which ran from 1972 to 1982
• He was a co-founder of the publishers Wild & Woolley, with Pat Woolley.

Reception

A critical study of his work, Michael Wilding and the Fiction of Instant Experience by Don Graham, was published in 2013.

Thesis

Ian Harold Jamieson; 'Sex and the Sydney Context Of Michael Wilding's Early Fiction', Ph D thesis, University of Western Sydney, 2009 Academia.edu

Essays in books and periodicals

Carl Harrison-Ford, 'The Short Stories of Wilding and Moorhouse’, Southerly, 33 (1973) 167-178 Academia.edu

Bruce Bennett , World Literature Written in English ,15, 2 (November 1976) 359-366

Dutton, Geoffrey, ed., Literature of Australia, revised edition, Penguin, Ringwood, 1976

Brian Kiernan, 'Recent Developments in Australian Writing with Particular Reference to Short Fiction’, Caliban, (Toulouse) XIV (1977) 123-134

Cantrell, Leon, 'The New Novel' in K. G. Hamilton, ed., Studies in the Recent Australian Novel, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1978, 225-57

Ken Gelder, 'Uncertainty and Subversion in the Australian Novel’, Pacific (Moana) Quarterly, (Hamilton, New Zealand) IV (1979) 437-444

Ken Gelder, 'Character and Environment in Some Recent Australian Fiction’, Waves, (York University, Ontario) VII (1979) 98-104

Bruce Clunies Ross, 'Laszlo's Testament, or Structuring the Past and Sketching the Present in Contemporary Short Fiction’, Kunapipi, (Aarhus) I ii (1980) 110-123 Academia.edu

G. M. Gillard, 'The New Writing: Whodunnit?' Meanjin XL (1981) 167-174

Bruce Clunies Ross, ‘Some Developments in short fiction, 1969-80’, Australian Literary Studies, 1981 XXX

Wilkes, G. A., The Stockyard and the Croquet Lawn: Literary Evidence for Australia's Cultural Development, Edward Arnold, Melbourne, 1981

Mitchell, Adrian, in Kramer, L. J., ed., The Oxford History of Australian Literature, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981, 170-1

Brian Kiernan, 'Literary Sydney' in Jill Roe ed., Twentieth Century Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 19xx, reprinted in Brian Kiernan, Studies in Australian Literary History, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 17, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney: Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 1998

Contemporary Authors, Gale Research Co, Detroit:

104, ed. Frances C. Loher, 1982, 519
24 New Revision series, ed. Deborah A. Straub, 1988, 476
49 New Revision series, ed. Pamela S. Dear, 1995, 440-2
106 New Revision series, 2002, 452-6

Michele Fryar, ‘Moorhouse and Wilding as Fiction Writers : Our Hottest Property?’ — Aspects of Australian Culture, 1982, 55-59

Harry Payne Heseltine , The Uncertain Self : Notes on the Development of Australian Literary Form ‘, Review of National Literatures Australia, 1982, 85-113

Bruce Clunies Ross, 'A New Version of Pastoral: the Fiction of Michael Wilding’, Australian Literary Studies, XI (1983) 182-194

Washington Post Book World, (March 20 1983)

Hans Hauge, 'Post-Modernism and the Australian Literary Heritage’, Overland, 96 (1984) 50-51

Andrew Field in The Age Monthly Review (September 1985)

Mitchell, Adrian, in Kramer, L. J., ed., The Oxford History of Australian Literature, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981, 170-1

Michele Fryar, ‘Moorhouse and Wilding as Fiction Writers : Our Hottest Property?’ — Aspects of Australian Culture, 1982, 55-59

Brian Kiernan, 'Literary Sydney' in Jill Roe ed., Twentieth Century Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 19xx, reprinted in Brian Kiernan, Studies in Australian Literary History, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 17, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney: Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 1998

Contemporary Authors, Gale Research Co, Detroit:

104, ed. Frances C. Loher, 1982, 519
24 New Revision series, ed. Deborah A. Straub, 1988, 476
49 New Revision series, ed. Pamela S. Dear, 1995, 440-2
106 New Revision series, 2002, 452-6

Ian Reid, 'The Social Semiotic of Narrative Exchange’, in T. Threadgold, E. A. Grosz, G. Kress and M. A. K. Halliday, ed., Semiotics, Ideology, Language, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 3, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney, 1986

Ken Goodwin, A History of Australian Literature, Macmillan, London, 1986, 254-8

Don Anderson, Hot Copy: Reading & Writing Now, Penguin, Ringwood, 1986, 46-8

Bruce Clunies Ross, 'Paradise, Politics and Fiction: The Writing of Michael Wilding’, Meanjin, 45 i (1986) 19-27

Bruce Bennett, 'Michael Wilding' in James Vinson, ed., Contemporary Novelists, 4th edition, Macmillan, London, 1987

Kerryn Goldsworthy, Australian Literary Studies , 13, 4 (1988) 535-546

Kenneth Gelder, ‘Sex in Australian Fiction 1970 – 1987,’ Meanjin, 47, 1 (1988) 125-34

Ian Ousby, ed., Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988, revised edition 1992 reprinted as The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English, Wordsworth, 1994

L. T. Hergenhan, ed., The New Literary History of Australia, Penguin, Ringwood, 1988

Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman, The New Diversity: Australian Fiction 1970-88, McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1989

Carl Harrison-Ford, Tim Thorne, Don Anderson, Andrew Riemer, Bill Ashcroft and Helen Daniel in Helen Daniel, ed., The Good Reading Guide, McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1989, 273-6

Simone Vauthier, 'Lost and Found: Narrative and Description in Michael Wilding's "What it was like, sometimes,"' Journal of the Short Story in English: Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle (University of Angers) 12 (1989) 63-76

Simone Vauthier, 'Reading the Signs of Michael Wilding's "Knock Knock"' in Giovanna Capone, ed., European Perspectives: Contemporary Essays on Australian Literature, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1991, 128-139 Academia.edu

Laurie Clancy, Readers' Guide to Australian Fiction, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, 73, Gale Research, Detroit, 1993

Don Graham, 'Koka Kola Culture; Reflections Upon Things American Down Under’, Southwest Review, (USA) 78 ii (Spring 1993) 231-244

Frank Parigi, 'Frank Moorhouse and Michael Wilding - and Internationalism’, Antipodes, (Austin, Texas) 8 ii (June 1994) 15-20 Academia.edu

Don Anderson, Encyclopaedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, ed. Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, Routledge, London and New York, 2, 1994, 1657

Don Anderson, Text & Sex, Vintage, Random House, Sydney, 1995, 123, 139-140, 145, reprinted from Margaret Harris & Elizabeth Webby, ed. Reconnoitres, Sydney University Press, 1992

Wayne Martino, 'It's Not the Way Guys Think’, in Rollo Browne and Richard Fletcher, ed., Boys in Schools, Finch Publishing, Sydney, 1995, 124-138

Pradeep Trikha, 'Michael Wilding's Short Stories with Magnitude’, The Literary Criterion, 30, i & ii, (1995) 141-144

P. Trikha, 'Australian Short Fiction – The Last 30 Years’, Commonwealth Studies, 4, (1996) 144-9

Matt Condon, 'Our Remaindered Canon', The Australian's Review of Books, September 1997, 8-9, 31

Huang Yuan Shen, A History of Australian Literature, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, Shanghai, 1997, chapter six (5)

Ian Syson, 'Michael Wilding's Three Centres of Value’, Australian Literary Studies, (May 1998) 269-279 Academia.edu

Igor Maver, '"My Beloved Mississippi River": Michael Wilding's Somewhere New’, Antipodes, 12, ii (December 1998) 83-9 Academia.edu

P. Trikha, 'The New Wave Australian Fiction: 1965-1995', Occasional Papers, (March 1999) 43-51

Igor Maver, 'Non-Australian Settings in Michael Wilding's Selected and New Short Stories Somewhere New’, in Igor Maver, Contemporary Australian Literature Between Europe and Australia, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, 18, Sydney Association for Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney; Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 1999, 17-41 Academia.edu

Igor Maver, 'Michael Wilding's Selected and New Short Stories' in Mirko Jurak and Igor Maver, eds, Essays on Australian and Canadian Literature, Znanstveni institut Folozofske fakultete, Ljubljana, 2000, 71-85

Don Graham, 'Michael Wilding's "Lost Illusions"; The Balzacian Underpinnings of Wildest Dreams’, in Francis de Groen and Ken Stewart, ed., Australian Writing and the City (Proceedings of the 21st ASAL conference, 1999) Association for the Study of Australian Literature, [Sydney], 2000, 138-143

Dieter Riemenschneider, 'The Triangle of Art and Life: Michael Wilding, Short Story Writer' in Jacqueline Bardolph, ed., Telling Stories: Post-Colonial Short Fiction in English, Rodopi, Amsterdam and Atlanta, 2001, 427-38 (A paper given at the second conference on 'Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English’, Nice, March, 1997) Reference Guide to Short Fiction, St James Press, 2001

Short Story Criticism, 50, Gale Research Co, Detroit, 2002

Bruce Bennett, The Australian Short Story, University of Queensland Press, 2002

Irina Dunn, 'Tribute to Michael Wilding’, Newswrite, 122 (December 2002) 5

Jaroslav Kušnir, Australian Literature in Context, Slovakia, 2003, revised edition 2004

Robert Yeo, 'Michael Wilding's Short Stories: A Speculative Note' in Running Wild: Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding, ed. David Brooks and Brian Kiernan, Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 22, Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, Sydney; Manohar, New Delhi, 2004, 187-196

Brian Kiernan, 'Tichborne Redivivus: Re-viewing Michael Wilding's Fiction’, in Running Wild, 197-208

Laurie Hergenhan, 'Literary New Chums: Michael Wilding and Marcus Clarke’, in Running Wild, 223-232

Bruce Clunies Ross, 'Stories of Things Happening', in Running Wild, 233-246

Adrian Caesar, 'Pursuing Wild Dreams’, in Running Wild, 259-266 Academia.edu

Bruce Bennett, 'Home and Away: Australian Short Fiction of the 1970s – Moorhouse, Wilding, Viidikas’, in The Regenerative Spirit, volume 2, ed. S. Williams, D. Lonergan, R. Hosking, L. Deane and N. Bierbaum, Lythrum Press, Adelaide, 2004, 241-50 Reprinted as ‘The Unsettled 70s – Moorhouse, Wilding, Viidikas’, in Bruce Bennett, Homing In: Essays on Australian Literature and Selfhood, Network, Perth, 2006, 209-20

Colin Symes, 'Revolting campuses’, Teaching in Higher Education, 9, No. 4, (October 2004)

Peter Pierce, 'Michael Wilding’, Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Selina Samuels, Thomson Gale, 2007

Jaroslav Kušnír, ‘Michael Wilding, Murray Bail, Rodney Hall and Frank Moorhouse’, in Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer, ed, A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900, Camden House, Rochester N.Y., 2007, 359-74

Stephen Conlon, 'The New Idea of the University as an Academic Theme Park: Academia Nuts’, Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, 1, 1, (February 2007) 1-22 Reprinted in Conlon, Chaos in the Classroom, Assumption University Press, Bangkok, 2009, 266-294

'Profile: Michael Wilding’, The Write Stuff, August-September 2007

Adrienne Sallay, ‘Virgin Sock-Washers and Tweed Jackets: The Short Story in the 1970s’, Southerly, 68, 2 (November 2008) 181-96

Natasa Karanfilovic, ‘The Adventures of an Artful Dodger: On Writers and Writing in Contemporary Australia’, (Paper to BAS Conference, Romania, 2008) Journal of Australasian Literature, 2009 http://www.litere.uvt.ro/BAS/no15.htm http://www.litere.uvt.ro/documente_pdf/bas/contents_no15.pdf

Ffion Murphy, ‘Campus Criticism and Creative Writing: perfect partners?’ Strange Bedfellows: Refereed Conference papers of the 16th Annual AWWP Conference, 2010

Stephen Matchett, ‘Well-Schooled Eye for Scandal’, Australian, Higher Education, 31 August 2011, 37 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion/well-schooled-eye-for-scandal/story-e6frgcko-1226125601795

Don Graham, ‘The Rhetoric of Personal Address in Michael Wilding's Short Fiction’, Antipodes, 26.1 (June 2012): 99-101 Academia.edu

Bruce Bennett, The Spying Game: an Australian Angle, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2012, 29-32, 35

Laurie Hergenhan, ‘Refashioning the Campus Novel: Michael Wilding’s Academia Nuts’, in Confluenze Intertestuali. In onore de Angelo Righetti, ed. Annalisa Pes and Susanna Zinato, Liguori, Naples, 2013, 131-9

Stephen Conlon, ‘Michael Wilding’s Wild Bleak Bohemia’, Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, 7, 2 (2013) 49-62 Academia.edu

Don Graham, ‘Michael Wilding’s Texas Story’, Antipodes, 28: 2, December 2014, 426-435 Academia.edu

Zhang Rongsheng , Ding Wei, ‘Interpretation of Academic Fiction in Britain, America and Australia ,’ Australian Studies – Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Australian Studies in China, 2015, 102-109

Zhen-jiao Chen ,’Michael Wilding's Literary Critical Thoughts’, Journal of Xihua University , 35, 5, September 2016, 84-89 Stephen Conlon, ‘A Literary Alchemist: The Many Worlds of Michael Wilding (a Fragment from a Study of his Writings), Antipodes, 32, 1-2, 2018, 123-33

Jonah Raskin, 'Walking on the Aussie Wild Side: The Counterculture Down Under with Michael Wilding’, Counterpunch, 4 January 2019 reprinted in

Stephen Knight, ‘Spooks and Plants: on the crime fiction of Michael Wilding’, Sydney Review of Books, 1 April 2019 Academia.edu

Jean-François Verney, ‘The Counter-Cultural Art of Dealing with Dirt: The Balmain Group’s Sexual Revolution in Print’, Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 43, 2, 2021

Roy C. Boland, ‘The Truth of Lies. The Paraguayan Experiment by Michael Wilding: a historical novel about Australia and Paraguay’, Antípodas: Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies, XXXII (2021) 103-22

On-line essays:

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