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