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  • Tasma’s First Publication
  • Advice to the Middle Aged
  • Ada Cambridge, G.F. Cross, and ‘The Modern Pulpit’
  • Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1991
  • The Self and the Magic Lantern: Gender and Subjectivity in Australian Colonial Women’s Writing [1992]
  • Review of *David Williamson: A Writer's Career*, by Brian Kiernan
  • Review of *Imagined Lives: A Study of David Malouf*, *Sheer Edge: Aspects of Identity in David Malouf's Writing*, *David Malouf*, and *Randolph Stow*
  • An Uncollected Poem by Kenneth Slessor
  • ‘The Only Russian in Sydney’: Modernism and Realism in *The Watch Tower*
  • Review of *Thirty Years in Australia*, *Ada Cambridge: Her Life and World 1844-1926*, *Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge*, *Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson: novelist, journalist, naturalist*, and *Bengala or Some Time Ago*
  • Satyrs in the Top Paddock: Metaphysical Pastoral in Australian Poetry
  • ‘A Depressed Amor’: Richardson’s ‘The Bathe: a Grotesque’
  • Review of *The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures* by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin.
  • Review of *Kenneth Slessor, A Biography* by Geoffrey Dutton, and *The Annotated Such is Life* by Joseph Furphy, ed. F. Devlin-Glass, R. Eaden, L. Hoffman, and G.W. Turner
  • Rewriting the Past: Exploration and Discovery in *The Transit of Venus*
  • James Lester Burke, Martin Cash and Frank the Poet
  • Enlarging Our Experiments with Narrative: John A. Scott’s Triology with Annotations
  • Review of *Antipodean Encounters: Australia and the German Literary Imagination 1754-1918* by Alan Corkhill, and *German Images in Australian Literature from the 1940s to the 1980s* by Irmtraud Petersson
  • Man, Work and Country: The Production of Henry Lawson
  • Review *Henry Lawson, a Life* by Colin Roderick, *The Order of Things: A Life of Joseph Furphy* by John Barnes, and *The Life and Opinions of Tom Collins: A Study of the Works of Joseph Furphy* by Julian Croft
Volume 15 No. 3
1 May 1992
  • Imagined Counterpart: Outlining a Conceptual Literary Geography of Australia
  • Introduction
  • A Gendered Bush: Mansfield and Australian Drovers’ Wives
  • Searchlights and the Search for History in Christina Stead’s ‘Seven Poor Men of Sydney’
  • Fringe Finds Focus: Developments and Strategies in Aboriginal Writing in English
  • The Bridled Pegaroo, or, Is there a Colonial Poetics of Intertextuality
  • Gambling on Reality: A Reading of Peter Carey’s *Oscar and Lucinda*
  • The Novel as ‘Work in Progress’: Shirley Hazzard’s *The Transit of Venus*
  • Is Phallocentricity a Sin? or a Peccadillo?: Comedy and Gender in Ethel Anderson’s *At Parramatta* and Patrick White’s *Voss*
  • Hal Porter, *The Tower* and the Quintessence of Porterism
  • ‘Savage Paradise’: History, Violence and the Family in Some Recent Australian Fiction
  • Topographies of the Self: Coming to Terms with the Australian Landscape in Contemporary Australian Poetry
  • ‘Home Ground, Foreign Territory’: Living with Australia
  • Reading the Signs of Michael Wilding’s ‘Knock, Knock’
  • Literary Criticism in Australia: A Change of Critical Paradigms?
  • Last Flight to Byzantium: *Memoirs of Many in One*
  • Australian Poems on European Paintings
European Perspectives: Contemporary Essays on Australian Literature
Volume 15 No. 2
1 October 1991
  • ‘The Great Australian Emptiness’ Revisited: Murray Bail’s *Holden’s Performance*
  • Mal du Pays: Symbolic Geography in the Work of Randolph Stow
  • Review by Christopher Koch
  • Review of *Henry Handel Richardson: Fiction in the Making* by Axel Clark, *The Importance of Being Eve Langley* by Joy L. Thwaite, and *The Last Exquisite: A Portrait of Frederic Manning* by Verna Coleman
  • Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1990
  • The Australian Crucible: Alchemy in Marcus Clarke’s ‘His Natural Life’
  • Review by Craig Munro
  • Patrick White and Murray Bail: Appropriations of ‘The Prodigal Son’
  • Review by Martin Duwell
  • Ern Malley and Les Deliquescences D’adore Floupette
Volume 15 No. 1
1 May 1991
  • True Tales and False Alike Work by Suggestion: The Poetry of A.D. Hope
  • Impossible Coincidences: Narrative Strategy in Brian Castro’s *Birds of Passage*
  • Review of books by Richard D. Jordan and Peter Pierce, Elizabeth Webby, Lucy Sussex, Elizabeth Morrison, and Gillian Whitlock
  • Review of *A Writing Life* By Giulia Giuffré
  • Gossip and History in the Novels of Brian Penton and Thomas Keneally
  • Review *Australian Literature: An Historical Introduction*, by John McLaren
  • Evoking Empathy: Structures of Language and Feeling in Robert Gray’s Poetry
  • Review of *James McAuley: Poetry, Essays and Personal Commentary* ed. Leonie Kramer, *Poetry and Gender: Statements and Essays in Australian Women's Poetry and Poetics* ed. David Brooks and Brenda Walker, and *A Question of Commitment: Australian Literature in the Twenty Years after the War* by Susan McKernan
  • Nationalism before Nationhood: Overseas Horizons in Debates of the 1880s
  • The Short Story Cycles of Frank Moorhouse
  • The Use of Names and Colours in Randolph Stow’s *Tourmaline*
  • Alrene Sykes
  • Review of *The Folly of Spring: A Study of John Shaw Neilson's Poetry* by Cliff Hanna, and *Dimitris Tsaloumas: Poet* by Con Castan
  • Thomas Shapcott’s Verse from a European Perspective
  • Markers to the Millennium: Thomas Shapcott’s Poetry: A Retrospective
  • The Language of Music: Helen Garner’s *The Children’s Bach*
Volume 14 No. 4
1 October 1990
  • The Fiction of Beverley Farmer
  • Preoccupations
  • Arthur and Emily: A Note on a World War I Novel
  • Review of *Christina Stead: A Life of Letters* by Chris Williams, *Christina Stead* by Diana Brydon, *Christina Stead* by Susan Sheridan, and *Christina Stead's Heroine: The Changing Sense of Decorum* by Kate Macomber Stern
  • Ada Cambridge and the First *Thirty Years*
  • *The Scent of Eucalyptus*: Gothic Autobiography
  • Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1989
  • ‘Hearts of Gold and a Happy Ending’: The Appeal of *The Harp in the South*
  • Review of *Black Words, White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988* by Adam Shoemaker
  • Review of books by Debra Adelaide, Helen Daniel, Chris Tiffin, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman
  • Review of *Australian Literary Criticism—1945-1988: An Annotated Bibliography*, by Robert L. Ross.
  • Arthur Hoey Davis and Several ‘Steele Rudds’: Imagining the Pseudonymous Author
  • Review of *James Smith: The Making of a Colonial Culture* by Lurline Stuart, and *James Edward Neild: Victorian Virtuoso* by Harold Love
  • Charles Harpur’s Disfiguring Origins: Allegory in Colonial Poetry
Volume 14 No. 3
1 May 1990
  • 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