The fifty years spanning the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century saw literary studies established as an…
This paper presents the Sydney Review of Books, which I edited, as a case study in the intersecting conflicts about value in contemporary Australian…
What is the place of literary studies in the history of its own decline In this paper, I will explore three issues: (1) the idioms…
The article explores the tastes and values of late-nineteenth-century reading groups and societies in Hobart, Sydney and Adelaide, and of their interest (or lack thereof)…
Places My Brilliant Career in the wider context of late nineteenth century Australian writing and literary cultures, examining its position in the Australian literary canon…
As every writing on or of short fiction knows, beginnings and endings are vital. The boundaries of this critical outline of twentieth-century Australian short fiction…