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  • Who is My Neighbour?: Tim Winton’s ‘Aquifer’ and the Ghosts of Cloudstreet
  • ‘Having Fun with the Professors’: Gwen Harwood and Doctor Eisenbart
Volume 32, No. 1
26 February 2017
  • ‘The Young Man Will Go Far’: Educational Mobility and Christina Stead’s Compositional Practice in the Early 1930s
  • Christina Stead’s Earliest Publications
  • Christina Stead’s Student Publications
  • The Tank Stream Press: Urban Modernity and Cultural Life in Christina Stead’s *Seven Poor Men of Sydney*
  • ‘Lights all askew in the heavens’: Einsteinian Relativity, Literary Modernism and the Lecture on Light in Christina Stead’s *Seven Poor Men of Sydney*
  • ‘Merely Unfriendly or Slightly Critical’: Christina Stead. The Left, and *I’m Dying Laughing*
  • Politics and Passion in Stead’s Late Novels
  • Introduction
  • The Children’s Chorus: Sibling Soundscapes in *The Man Who Loved Children*
  • Repetition and Christina Stead’s *The Man Who Loved Children*
  • Christina Stead’s ‘Kelly File’: Politics, Possession and the Writing of *Cotters’ England*
  • ‘A Vermeer in the Hayloft’: Christina Stead, Unjust Neglect and Transnational Improprieties of Place and Kind
Rediscovering Christina Stead
Volume 31, No. 6
8 December 2016
  • ‘Living in Sin’: Money and Morals in ‘Virtue’, a Play by Stella Miles Franklin
  • ‘No light, no land or sea’: Urban alienation in Elizabeth Harrower’s *Down in the City*.
Volume 31, no. 5
16 November 2016
  • The Post-Sovereign Novel: Biopolitical Immunities in Manfred Jurgensen’s *The American Brother*
  • Reading *The Electrical Experience* in *Cold Light*: Labour Politics and Narrative Form in Frank Moorhouse, Then and Now.
Volume 31 No. 4
10 August 2016
  • Review of *The Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose*
  • 'Taking the flowery bed back to Australia': The Repatriation of Charmian Clift and George Johnston
  • Cooper, Cather, Prichard, 'Pioneer': The Chronotope of Settler Colonialism
Volume 31 No. 3
1 June 2016
  • One Decade, Two Accounts: The Aboriginal Arts Board and ‘Aboriginal literature’, 1973-1983
  • Interview with Kerry Reed-Gilbert
  • Place, History and Story: Tony Birch and the Yarra River
Volume 31 No. 2
5 May 2016
  • Afterword: The Story of a Bookmark
  • Manifesting Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines
  • Humanitarian Sex : Biopolitics, Ethics, and Aid Worker Memoir
  • The Impact of Literature
  • Meta-Medievalism and the Future of the Past in the ‘Australian Girl’ Novel
  • Editorial
Volume 31 No. 1
15 February 2016
  • Introduction
  • Before the Nation: Rolf Boldrewood and the Problem of Scale in National Literatures
  • Marcus Clarke, the Two George Eliots, and the History of Two Newspapers
  • ‘The Beast Within’: Degeneration in *Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde* and Three Australian Short Stories
  • Strange in the Cold Blue Light: Sensation and Science in the *Australian Journal*
  • Francis Adams: Realism and Sensation in the 1880s
  • The Tennysons in Literary Adelaide
  • Symbolism and the Antipodes: The Fallen Woman in Caroline Leakey’s *Lyra Australis, or Attempts to Sing in a Strange Land*
  • Reading Byron in Kororāreka: *The Journal of Ensign Best*
  • Transforming *Jane Eyre*: Its Australian Stage Adaptations
Volume 30 No. 3

This special issue was edited by Susan K. Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi.

31 October 2015
  • Introduction: Why Pastoral?
  • Why the ‘Pathetic Fallacy’ Isn’t One: Early Modern Vitalism and the Emotions of Nature in Shakespeare and Milton
  • Pastoral Retreat and Green Texts: The 2009 Globe Production of *Love’s Labour’s Lost*
  • The Practice of Pastoral Empathy in Wordsworth’s Salisbury Plain Poems
  • Representation and Particularity in Pastoral: Some Examples from *Walden*
  • Nude Bathing Scenes as an Australian Pastoral Mode: Strategies and Tactics in Australian Art around the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • A Pastoral Reading of Christina Stead’s *Cotters’ England*
  • Wildness and Wilderness: Anti-pastoralism and the Problematic Politics of Edward Abbey
  • Amanda Lohrey's *Vertigo*: An Australian Pastoral.
  • Barbara Kingsolver’s Singing Shepherd: *The Lacuna* as Pastoral Elegy
  • Ecopastoralism: Settler Colonial Pastoral Imaginary in the US West and Australian Outback
Afterlives of Pastoral
Volume 30 No. 2

Editors: Judith Seaboyer, Ruth Blair and Victoria Bladen

30 June 2015
  • Since 1964 ...
  • Back to Whitton Week: Tracking Tom Keneally's Career
  • Colonialism, Racial Violence and Loss: *The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith* and *The Roving Party*
  • From the Harp of Erin to Erin of the Harp with Thomas Keneally
  • The Making of Thomas Keneally
  • In Custody: Thomas Keneally and American Stories
  • Interview with Thomas Keneally, Manly, 27 June 2012
Volume 30 No. 1

Selected and revised essays from a seminar held in September 2014 at the University of Wollongong celebrating fifty years of Thomas Keneally as a novelist.

Edited by Paul Sharrad.

30 May 2015
  • ‘Are You for Magic?’ Patrick White and Camp
  • Reading Groups and Reconciliation: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River and the Ordinary Reader
  • William Howitt, Australia and the ‘Green Language’
  • Gardens of Empire, Eden and Passion in Charlotte Wood’s The Submerged Cathedral
  • The Writing and Publishing of Australia’s First Gay Novel
  • Woods, Memories and Dreams: David Martin
  • Marcus Clarke, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Cyril Hopkins
  • Review by Ruth Blair
  • Review by Joseph Cummins
Volume 29 No. 4
1 November 2014