Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy, by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver. Sydney University Press, 2017.
With the growing interest in the history of the book, the extensive Angus & Robertson archive, now held at the State Library of NSW, has…
Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essays includes twelve essays based on papers delivered at a symposium of the same title, held in Sydney in May…
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)…
Webby presents a detailed analysis of the first two Australian volumes in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Bibliographies, indexes, finding lists - essential tools for the literary scholar and cultural historian, but ones often lacking for Australian material. The three works reviewed…
Some years ago I was teaching a course on nineteenth-century Australian literature which involved lectures on both Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901) and Joseph…
In the past, drama has been something of the Cinderella among Australia's literary genres. In nationalist constructions of of literary history, for example, poetry and…
On 27 May 1887, Richardson had written in an exercise book she was using as a diary, now also among the Richardson Papers in the…
Between them, these four books indicate something of the present widening range of Australian literary studies. Our writers, especially our novelists, are attracting increasing attention…
Margaret Williams' book has been subtitled 'an historical entertainment in six acts'. Its format—quarto size, large print, generous margins, plentiful illustrations—seems designed for the coffee…
These four books—two autobiographical, two biographical—between them cover almost the whole span of Australia's literary history. Catherine Spence s autobiography begins with reminiscences ofher childhood…
Hadgraft and Webby account for the legend of Fisher's Ghost, which has its origins in the murder of farmer Frederick Fisher in Campbell Town on…