Textual Phantasmagoria: Marcus Clarke, Light Literature and the Colonial Uncanny

Abstract

McCann analyses the representations of the colonial unconscious and the Romantic imagination—the intersection of affect and aesthetics—in the writing of Marcus Clarke.

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Published 1 October 2003 in Volume 21 No. 2. Subjects: Aesthetics, Australian literary magazines, Colonial literature & writers, Gothic, Imagination, Popular culture, Romanticism, Spiritualism, Marcus Clarke.

Cite as: McCann, Andrew. ‘Textual Phantasmagoria: Marcus Clarke, Light Literature and the Colonial Uncanny.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, 2003, doi: 10.20314/als.8216c5802d.