Issues

Ripping Yarns, Ideology, and *Robbery Under Arms*
‘Current History Looks Apocalyptic’: Barnard Eldershaw, Utopia and the Literary Intellectual, 1930s-1940s
Review of *Poet of the Colours: The Life of John Shaw Neilson* by John H. Phillips
Some of the Ghosts: Growing Up in Tasmania
Review of *Liars: Australian New Novelists*, by Helen Daniel
Review of *The Writer's Sense of the Past*, edited by Kirpal Singh; and *Australian/Canadian Literatures in English: Comparative Perspectives*, edited by Russell McDougall and Gillian Whitlock
Review of *Beyond the Echo: Multicultural Women's Writings*, edited by Sneja Gunew and Jan Mahyuddin; and *Conflicts of Love* by Con Castan, *Reflections: Selected Works from Greek Literature*, edited by Thanasis Spilias and Stavros Messinis
Review of *L'Universo Terra in 'Voss' di Patrick White* by Antonella Riem, and *The Labyrinths of the Self* by Antonella Riem
Sir Samuel Griffith, Dante and the Italian Presence in Nineteenth-Century Australian Literary Culture
Sentimental Jonah’s Heart of Stone
Review of *Journal of an Era: Notes from the Red Letter Days*, by Jack Beasley
Murnane, Husserl, Derrida: The Scene of Writing
‘White Ravens’ in a World of Violence: German Connections in Thomas Keneally’s Fiction
Homages and Invocations: The Early Poetry of Robert Adamson
The Fifty Best Australian Novels: 1933
Review of *Nettie Palmer: Her Private Journal "Fourteen Years", Poems, Reviews and Literary Essays*, edited by Vivian Smith
‘Interest’ in Les A. Murray
A Survey of Chinese Translation of Australian Literature

Volume 14 No. 2

1 October 1989

The Historical Source for Ada Cambridge’s ‘The Camp’
*An Imaginary Life*: The Dimensions of Self
Review of *Courage a Grace: A Biography of Dame Mary Gilmore* by W.H. Wilde, and *Martin Boyd: A Life* by Brenda Niall
Review of books by Elizabeth Perkins, Vincent O'Sullivan, Veronica Kelly, Richard Fotherinham, Peter Putnis and Patrick Morgan
Some Correspondence with Joan Lindsay
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1988
Review of *Coming Out From Under: Contemporary Australian Women Writers* by Pam Gilbert
Review of *Big-Noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing* by Robin Gerster, and *Frank Honywood, Private: A Personal Record of the 1914-1918 War, by Eric Patridge, introduced and annotated by Geoffrey Serle
Review of new books on Australian women's writing
Review of *The Penguin New Literary History of Australia*, general editor, Laurie Hergenhan; editors Bruce Bennett, Martin Duwell, Brian Mathews, Peter Pierce, Elizabeth Webby
Olivia and Chloe: Fictions of Female Friendship
A Fiction of Sisters: Christina Stead’s *Letty Fox* and *For Love Alone*
New Light on Ada Cambridge
*Unspoken Thoughts*: A Reassessment of Ada Cambridge
Tranter’s Plots
Gender and Genre in Barbara Baynton’s *Human Toll*

Volume 14 No. 1

1 May 1989

The Penguin New Literary History of Australia

Volume 13 No. 4

1 October 1988

A Lost Dimension: The Immigrant’s Experience In the Work of David Malouf
The Snake
Verses
Sonnet
Rufus Dawes, Novelist
Review of *Gwen Harwood* ed. Robert Sellick; and *Reading Australian Poetry* by Andrew Taylor
Family and the Father in the Poetry of Les A. Murray
Fishing at Sundown
The Spruiker
Review of *Mapped But Not Known: The Australian Landscape of the Imagination*, ed. P .R. Eadcn and F.H. Mares
The Stream
The Island
Review of *Louisa* by Brian Matthews
Getting Things Straight With Comrade Pope
John Manifold: Poet At Cambridge
Joe Lynch, Bohemian Hero of Five Bells
Ancestors
Review of *The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia*, general editor Peter Pierce, assistant editor Rosemary Hunter, and twelve associates
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1987
Biography and Fiction : George Johnston’s Meredith Trilogy and Garry Kinane’s Biography
David Malouf’s *Child’s Play* and ‘The Death of the Author’
May Day
Review of *Louisa* by Brian Matthews
‘What You See Must Be Other’: Language and Eros in the Poetry of Richard Kelly Tipping
Australian Paintings in England
Facey’s A Fortunate Life and Traditional Oral Narratives
Sheer Voice and Fidget Wheels: A Study of 'Five Bells'

Volume 13 No. 3

1 May 1988

Charles Harpur and the Myth of Origins
Catherine Martin, Writer: Her Life and Ideas
The Penguin and the Man-O’-War Hawk: Joseph Furphy’s Critical Reputation, 1903-1947
Reopening the Case of Ada Cambridge
Review of *Robert D. FitzGerald* ed. Julian Croft; and *A Tribute to David Campbell, A Collection of Essays* ed. Harry Heseltine
Review of *Adam Lindsay Gordon: a Comprehensive Bibliography* by Ian F. McLaren
Review of *National Fictions: Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative* by Graeme Turner
Interview with Jack London
Review of *Catherine Helen Spence* ed. Helen Thomson; and *Point of Departure. The Autobiography of Jean Devanny* ed. Carole Ferrier
Shirley Hazzard: Transit and *The Bay of Noon*
A Christina Stead Letter
Getting Started: The Emergence of Christina Stead’s Early Fiction
Christina Stead’s ‘Drama of the Person’
Romance Australia: Love in Australian Literature of Exploration

Volume 13 No. 2

1 October 1987

Review of *The Australian Short Story: An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s*; *The Australian Short Story 1940-1980: A bibliography*; and *Lines of Implication: Australian Short Fiction from Lawson to Palmer*
Review of *Hot Copy: Reading and Writing Now* by Don Anderson; *Yacker: Australian Writers Talk About Their Work* by Candida Baker; and *Rooms of their Own* by Jennifer Ellison
James McAuley’s Captain Quiros
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1986
From Pleasure Domes to Bark Huts: Architectural Metaphors in Recent Australian Fiction
Steele Rudd’s Real Dad: An Exiled Convict?
Anthologies and Orthodoxies
Review of *The Lyre in the Pawnshop: Essays on Literature and Survival 1974-1984* by Fay Zwicky; and *The Uncertain Self: Essays in Australian Literature and Criticism* by Harry Heseltine
Drama’s Vitallest Expression: The Fiction of Olga Masters
Review of *Death is a Good Solution* by A.W. Baker; and *Snow on the Saltbush* by Geoffrey Dutton
Reminiscences of Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie and E.L. Grant Watson
A Survey of Australian Utopian and Dystopian Fiction
A.B. Facey’s Australian Autobiography

Volume 13 No. 1

1 May 1987

Apollo in George Street
American Dreaming : The Fictions of Peter Carey
Review of *The Australian Stage: A Documentary History*, ed. Harold Love
Voices in Time: *A Kindness Cup* and *Miss Peabody’s Inheritance*
An Interview with Thomas Keneally
Review of *A History of Australian Literature, vol 1 1789-1923, vol. 2 1923-1950* by H.M. Green, rev. Dorothy Green; and *A History of Australian Literature* by Ken Goodwin
Review of *Unbridling the Tongues of Women. A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence*, by Susan Magarey
Review of *Strange Country: A Study of Randolph Stow*, by Anthony J. Hassall
A Lost Satire on the 1890s *Bulletin* Writers and Bohemians
Newspaper Publications of Novels of Ada Cambridge
Editing A.D. Hope
On Finding ‘Australia’: Mirages, Mythic Images, Historical Circumstances
Francis Webb’s Collected Poems
Review of *The Australian Short Story before Lawson*, ed. Cecil Hadgraft
Review of *The Portrayal of Women in the Fiction of Henry Handel Richardson*, *Gender, Politics and Fiction. Twentieth Century Australian Women's Novels*, *Dictionary of the Australian Theatre. 1788-1914*, *Henry Handel Richardson: a Critical Study*
The Sites of War in the Fiction of Thomas Keneally
John Tranter: Absence in Flight

Volume 12 No. 4

1 October 1986

Reading Men Like Signboards: The Egalitarian Semiotic of *Such is Life*
Rufus Dawes and Changing Narrative Perspectives in *His Natural Life*
Lawler’s Demythologizing of the Doll: Kid Stakes and Other Times
A Patrick White Sketch
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1985
A Letter from Shirley Hazzard
Correspondence
Correspondence
Review of six recent critical studies of Patrick White
Research in Progress in Australian Literature [1986]
*The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony*: Hal Porter’s Triumph of Creative Contradiction
Art as Reflection in Jessica Anderson’s *Tirra Lirra by the River*
Texts and Contexts of the Availability and Editing of Australian Texts
The Public Image of John Shaw Neilson
Review of *Wild Man of Letters: The Story of P.R. Stephensen* by Craig Munro
Some Sources of *White Stag of Exile*
Rolf Boldrewood’s *War to the Knife*: Narrative Form and Ideology in the Historical Novel
After *925*

Volume 12 No. 3

1 May 1986

The Boer War: Paterson, Abbott, Brennan, Miles Franklin and Morant
War Poetry: Myth as De-formation and Re-formation
War in Post-1960s Fiction: Johnston, Stow, McDonald, Malouf and Les Murray
The Usable Past: Australian War Fiction of the 1950s
‘Preserving the White Race’: Some Australian Women’s Literary Responses to the Great War
[Statements about War Literature]
[Statement]
[Statement]
Checklist of Significant Historical Books and Articles, 1965-1985 on Australia’s Involvements in War
[Statement]
[Statement]
[Statement]
From the Sudan to Saigon: A Critical Review of Historical Works
A Checklist of Australian Prose of the Second World War
A Checklist of Australian Literature of the First World War
The Rise of the Prisoner-of-War Writers
War Correspondents in Australian Literature: An Outline
Perceptions of the Enemy in Australian War Literature
A Checklist of Australian Literature of the Vietnam War

Volume 12 No. 2

1 October 1985

Asian Stereotypes in Recent Australian Plays
Xavier Herbert
Fact and Fiction: The Scissors and Paste Job
The Poetry of Les Murray
Kipling’s Visit and the Early Reception of His Books in Australia (1889-1900)
Review of *The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship* by Sylvia Lawson
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature : 1984
Review of *Springtime in Taranaki: An Autobiography of Youth* by Douglas Stewart
Review of *Christopher Brennan*, ed. with introduction and notes by Terry Sturm
Short Notices
From Ballarat to Bendigo with Mark Twain
Xavier Herbert, H.G. Wells and J.S. Huxley: Unexpected British Connections
Review of *In A Critical Condition* by John Docker; and *The Music of Love: Critical Essays on Literature and Life* by Dorothy Green
Some Remarks on the Late Great Hal Porter
Reviewing Communism: *Communist Review* (Sydney) 1934-1966: A Checklist of Literary Material
Review of *Out of Eden: Henry Lawson's Life and Works* by Xavier Pons
Here Beyond My Knowing
Some Henry Lawson Letters to Edward Garnett
At the Edge: Geography and the Imagination in the Work of David Malouf

Volume 12 No. 1

1 May 1985