Colonial life
Articles
- First Steps toward a History of the Mid-Victorian Novel in Colonial Australia
The author’s approach is ‘to use quantitative reading data to analyse the circulation of Victorian written culture in a range of Australian colonial contexts, and…
1 May 2006 - What Created, What Perceived?: Early Responses to New South Wales
How, then, should we view the recent historiography of our imaginative evolution—as we have to date, as a valid description of what has occurred Or,…
1 October 1975 - Review of The Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, Including his Vocabulary of the Flash Language, edited by Noel McLachlan
We are beginning to reach a stage when the books which form the basis of our social history are emerging from obscurity and are becoming…
1 June 1965 - The Australian Bush-Woman
The Government statistician estimated that at the end of 1887 there were in the colony of New South Wales about 471,000 women and girls, so…
1 October 1982 - Colonial Violence and Forgotten Fiction
The focus of this essay is ‘on excavating short fiction built around representation of frontier conflict’ (33). The short fictions of colonial frontier violence ‘seem…
1 June 2009 - Alien Intoxications: The Aggressions of a Brisbane Opium Smoker
'In Australia opium smoking provoked a rhetorical nexus of intoxication, cultural division, and clamorous assertions of nationality. ... With this in mind, what I offer…
1 June 2012 - ‘Does all Melbourne smell like this?’: The Colonial Metropolis in Marvellous Melbourne
A few years after George Augustus Sala had coined the term ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ in 1885, a play with that title was written and performed with…
1 May 2003 - Review of books by Richard D. Jordan and Peter Pierce, Elizabeth Webby, Lucy Sussex, Elizabeth Morrison, and Gillian Whitlock
Reviews of the following volumes:
The Poets' Discovery, edited by Richard D. Jordan and Peter Pierce Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1990.
Colonial Voices: Letters,…
1 October 1990 - The Self and the Magic Lantern: Gender and Subjectivity in Australian Colonial Women’s Writing [1992]
Displaced from all that is familiar, the colonial subject experiences disorientation; a confusion which is represented in the dislocating experience of emigration and the ambivalent…
1 May 1992 - Sir Samuel Griffith, Dante and the Italian Presence in Nineteenth-Century Australian Literary Culture
Sir Samuel Griffith's place in Australian history rests on his public career as Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of Queensland, and after Federation as the…
1 October 1989 - Review of The Nervous Nineties: Australian Cultural Life in the 1890s by John Docker
In his preface to The Nervous Nineties, John Docker gives the reader some advice on what cannot be expected from his book—there will be…
1 October 1992 - Colonial Gothic: Morbid Anatomy, Commodification and Critique in Marcus Clarke’s The Mystery of Major Molineux
The dynamics of what might be called colonial Gothic, by which I mean the Gothicizing of the settler-colony as a site of repression, also anticipate…
1 October 2000 - Historiography in Melbourne in the Eighteen Seventies and Eighties
IN the 1870's came the first group of histories and would-be histories of the colony of Victoria. Although there were only five decades of European…
1 October 1969
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