Historiography
Articles
- 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 - Allegory, Space, Colonialism: Remembering Babylon and the Production of Colonial History
Remembering Babylon, with its strange and compelling story of Gemmy Fairley's negotiation between 'Australian' and 'Aboriginal' identities, is, like 'The Writing Lesson', simultaneously an…
1 October 1995 - Checklist of Significant Historical Books and Articles, 1965-1985 on Australia’s Involvements in War
Provides a bibliography of books and articles concerning Australia's involvement in various wars from the Sudan Campaign to the Vietnam War.
1 October 1985 - Greeks and Moderns: The Search for Culture in the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
THE Official History of Australia in the War of 1914- 1918 provided Australians with an opportunity to assert the significance of their history to an…
1 October 2007 - 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 - ‘Ourselves Alone’? Encounters Between the Irish Literary Revival and Australian Settler-Modernisms, ca. 1913 – 1919
This essay examines intellectual exchanges between early twentieth-century Australian literary nationalists and the Irish literary revival, with attention to the transnational and imperial differences in…
30 September 2021 - Writing the Irish-Australian Self: Life-Writers and Irish Stereotypes, 1870-2000
This article surveys the history of Irish-Australian autobiography and memoir as a form of writing particularly well adapted to exploring the tensions and compromises of…
30 September 2021