Australian literature - Overseas responses

'Whatever a stern criticism may say as to the abiding merit of his work, at least there can be no doubt as to the value which the heart of Australia sets upon it.' These words were spoken by the Archbishop…

This article surveys the reception of a German translation (by Thomas Eichhorn, 2004) of Murray’s Fredy Neptune in German-speaking countries. It looks at responses to the verse novel and its author in German-language reviews and articles, and compares them with…

Periodicals of the 19th century comprehensively informed English readers about journeys to Australia as well as about travels and expeditions on the continent. How extensive British interest in such journeys and in general information about Australia was and how English…

C. Hartley Grattan and his Australia and Southwest Pacific Collection arrived at the University of Texas in Austin in 1964. I arrived there at the same time from Leeds to do a PhD in American literature, but aware of the…

Webby presents a detailed analysis of the first two Australian volumes in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Anna Wickham was a poet, singer, sociaf worker and feminist activist. The American scholar Jennifer Vaughan Jones published a biography in 2003, a book which reveals a great deal about Wickham's struggle as a poet but which is not widely…