Issues
- Colonial ‘Australian’ Theatre Writers: Cultural Authorship and the Case of Marcus Clarke’s ‘First’ Play
- Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1996
- Three-Dimensionality and *My Brother Jack*
- An Absence of Partisanship
- A Reconsideration of Christina Stead at Work: Fact into Fiction
- (Correspondence - response to review)
- ‘Those Infernal Pictures’: Reading Helen Darville, Her Novel and Her Critics
- New Light on the Sources of *His Natural Life*
- Review of *Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography*, *Autographs: Contemporary Australian Autobiography*, and *The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia*
- An Interview with Christopher Koch
- ‘Deep Ancestral Voices’: Inner and Outer Narrative in Christopher J. Koch’s *Highways to a War*
- Review of *Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia*, by John McLaren, and *A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia 1946-96*, by Geoffrey Dutton
- Review of *David Williamson: A writer's Career*, by Brian Kiernan
- Editorial
- Review of *Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity* by Paul Kane, and *Bridging: Readings in Australian Women's Poetry* by Rose Lucas and Lyn McCredden
- ‘What Is Gone Is Not Gone’: Intimations in the Poetry of Thomas Shapcott
- An Interview with Thomas Shapcott
Volume 18 No. 1
1 May 1997
- A Bellyful of Bali: Travel, Writing and Australia/Asia Relationships
- Review of *Sumner Locke Elliott: Writing Life. A Biography*, by Sharon Clarke, and *Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson* by Peter Fitzpatrick
- Review of *Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing, 1880s-1930s* by Susan Sheridan, and *Writing the Colonial Adventure: Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914* by Robert Dixon
- An Interview with Tim Winton
- No Tyranny of Distance: The Reception of Publications on Australia in *The Athenaeum* 1828-1850
- Janette Turner Hospital’s Radical Re-Writing: Oedipal Charades
- What Can Be Read and What Can Only Be Seen in Tim Winton’s Fiction
- Anzac, Literary Genre and Memory
- ‘My Little Ghost-Slave’: The Queer Lives of Rosa Praed
- An Interview with Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- Leisure and Grief: The Recent Poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- Kenneth Slessor and the Chinese
Volume 17 No. 4
1 October 1996
- Creative Acts: Archives, Artifacts and Australian Women’s Autobiographies
- Ages of Reason: Ethics, Metaphor and the Work of Jennifer Maiden
- C. Hartley Grattan Remembered
- Person, Persona and Product: Henry Kendall and ‘Steele Rudd’
- Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1995
- Review of *List of Australian Writers 1788-1992*, comp. by John Arnold, and *The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature*, by William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, and Barry Andrews
- ‘Greetings to the Angry Penguins’: Ern Malley, Harry Roskolenko and USA Connections
- Littoral Erosion: The Changing Shoreline of Australian Culture
- Transgressing Language?: The Poetry of Ania Walwicz
- ‘Shafts into Our Fundamental Animalism’: Barbara Baynton’s Use of Naturalism in *Bush Studies*
- Review of *Kenneth Slessor*, by Adrian Caesar, and *Kenneth Slessor: Collected Poems*, edited by Dennis Haskell and Geoffrey Dutton
- ‘The Craft So Long to Learn’: Ruth Park’s Story of Ruth Park
- Marcus Clarke and the Society of the Spectacle: Reflections on Writing and Commodity Captialism in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne
Volume 17 No. 3
1 May 1996
- Dramatising the Self: Beverley Farmer’s Fiction
- English Heritage and Australian Culture: The Church and Literature of England in *Oscar and Lucinda*
- Allegory, Space, Colonialism: *Remembering Babylon* and the Production of Colonial History
- Worlds Apart? Finnish Translations of Australian Literature
- Review of *That Shining Band,* *Christina Stead*, *Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction*, *Provisional Maps: Critical Essays on David Malouf,* and *The Ironic Eye*
- New Directions Via *A Body of Water*
- Writers by Accident?: Recent Stocktaking of ‘Tasma’ and Paterson
- Review of *Territorial Disputes: Maps and Mapping Strategies in Contemporary Canadian and Australian Fiction*, by Graham Huggan, and *Identifying Australia in Postmodern Times*, edited by Livio Dobrez
- Heterotopias: Writing and Location
- Still Life: Art and Nature in Vivian Smith’s Poetry
- An Interview with Vivian Smith
- ‘Things are Cast Adrift’: Brian Castro’s Fiction
- Death and Home-Work: The Origins of Narrative in *The Fortunes of Richard Mahony*
Volume 17 No. 2
1 October 1995
- Lesbia Harford’s Homefront Warrior and Women’s World War I Writing
- Terra Australis: Landscape as Medium in *Capricornia* and *Poor Fellow My Country*
- Challenging History Making: Realism, Revolution and Utopia in *The Timeless Land*
- Review of *My Congenials: Miles Franklin & Friends in Letters*, edited by Jill Roe.
- ‘Greatness’ and Australian Literature in the 1930s and 1940s: Novels by Dark and Barnard Eldershaw
- Looking Beyond the Subject: Some Recent Biographies
- Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1994
- Cultural Pathology: What Ern Malley Means
- Two Answers to Every Question: Elizabeth Jolley’s Fiction, Ethics and Criticism
- Review of *The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955*, compiled and edited by Jack Bedson and Julian Croft
- Is There No End to Travelling? Paul Carter in the Linguistic No-Man’s-Land
- Australian Invention of Chinese Invasion: A Century of Paranoia, 1888-1988
- Review of *The Pathos of Distance*, *The Visitable Past: Images of Europe in Anglo-Australian Literature*, *Eagle and Emu: German-Australian Writing 1930-1990*, *An Antipodean Connection: Australian Writers, Artists and Travellers in Tuscany*
- ‘The Critics Made Me’: The Receptions of Thomas Keneally and Australian Literary Culture
- ‘The Folds of Unseen Linen’: The Fabric of Rosemary Dobson’s Poetry
Volume 17 No. 1
1 May 1995
- Challenging the Editing of the Rachel Henning Letters
- Stanzas at Leisure from Neglect
- *The Twyborn Affair*: Beyond ‘the Human Hierarchy of Men and Women’
- Review of *Christina Stead: A Biography*, by Hazel Rowley
- Harry Joy’s Children: The Art of Story Telling in Peter Carey’s *Bliss*
- Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1993
- ‘Contour-Line by Contour’: Landscape Change as an Index of History in the Poetry of Les Murray
- Hollow Men’s Country: Review of Kim Scott, *True Country*
- John Grant: Australia’s First ‘Really’ Radical Poet
- Feral Symbolists: Robert Adamson, John Tranter, and the Response to Rimbaud
- Narcotic Entanglements: Recent Works of Australian Literary Criticism
Volume 16 No. 3
1 May 1994
- Walter Murdoch : ‘A Humble Protest’?
- Some Recent Australian Fictions in the Age of Tourism: Murray Bail, Inez Baranay, Gerard Lee
- A.G. Stephens’s ‘Bookfellow’ in New Zealand
- ‘Deadly’ Work: Reading the Short Fiction of Archie Weller
- Review of *The Sea Coast of Bohemia: Literary Life in Sydney's Roaring Twenties* by Peter Kirkpatrick
- Bushed
- The Cult of the Author
- Nationalising the Author: The Celebrity of Peter Carey
- Official Criticism? Critical Practices and Australian Poetry
- An Interview with Archie Weller
- Gaeldom and the Western District
- Edgy Laughter: Women and Australian Humour
- Sonnet Sequences in Australia (1832-1990): A Preliminary Checklist
- Henry Kingsley, and the ‘Dear Old Station’: The ‘Baroona’ of *Geoffry Hamlyn*?
- Review of *Henry Kendall: Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence* ed. Michael Ackland, and *Henry Kendall--The Muse of Australia* ed. Russell McDougall
- ‘What Had She to Do With Angels?’ : Gender and Narrative in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Volume 16 No. 2
1 October 1993
- Paris, Moscow, Melbourne: Some Avant-Garde Australian Little Magazines, 1930-1934
- Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1992
- Review of *Images of Australia*, edited by Gillian Whitlock and David Carter, *Sport in Australian Drama*, by Richard Fotheringham, and *South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia*, by Ross Gibson
- Review of *International Literature in English: Essays on the Major Writers*, edited by Robert L. Ross.
- Body in the Vault: The Unpublished Novels of Eve Langley
- The Aboriginal Subject in Autobiography: Ruby Langford’s *Don’t Take Your Love to Town*
- Boundary Crossing: The Novels of David Foster
- Review of *The ALS Guide to Australian Writers: A Bibliography 1963-1990*, edited by Martin Duwell and Laurie Hergenhan, and *A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers*, compiled by Sneja Gunew and others
- *Salt*: An Australian Second World War Journal and Its Contemporaries
- Life-Lines in Stormy Seas: Some Recent Collections of Women’s Diaries and Letters
- Xavier Herbert, Journalist?
- Australian Criticism in ‘Transition’
- Italian Immigrants in Australian Fiction 1900-1950
- Re-Writing Woman: Genre Politics and Female Identity in Kate Grenville’s *Dreamhouse*
- Review of *Capricornia* and *South of Capricornia: short stories* (1925-34) by Xavier Herbert, and *Xavier Herbert: episodes from Capricornia, Poor Fellow My Country and other fiction, nonfiction and letters*, edited by Frances de Groen and Peter Pierce.
- Honi Heke: The Maori as Aboriginal Hero in Australian Colonial Poetry
Volume 16 No. 1
1 May 1993
- The Dark Side of the Dreaming: Aboriginality and Australian Culture
- ‘Another Fresh Australian Tale’: The American Publication of Catherine Martin’s The Silent Sea
- Review of *The Nervous Nineties: Australian Cultural Life in the 1890s* by John Docker
- That Hilarious Supplement: Gerald Murnane’s *A Lifetime on Clouds*
- Art, Life and Authority in Australian Literary Culture: Marr and White
- Assimilation or Appropriation: Uses of European Literary Forms in Black Australian Writing
- G.A.S. in Australia: Hot Air Down-Under?
- Exploring Aesthetics: The Picturesque Appropriation of Land in Journals of Australian Exploration
- Out from the Shadows: The Realist Writers’ Movement, 1944-1970, and Communist Cultural Discourse
- Recent Australian Autobiography: A Review Essay
- Review of *God's Fool: The Life and Poetry of Francis Webb* by Michael Griffith, and *Spirit in Exile: Peter Porter and His Poetry* by Bruce Bennett
- Spaces, Cargoes, Documents, Values and Principles: Some Recent Poetry Anthologies
- Helen Garner’s *Monkey Grip*: The Construction of an Author and Her Work
- Review of *Thomas Keneally* by Peter Quartermaine
- Preying on the Past: Contexts of Some Recent Neo-Historical Fiction
Volume 15 No. 4
1 October 1992