Tom Keneally

In Thomas Keneally's four published novels, tendencies which we have grown familiar with in the fiction of H. H. Richardson Christina Stead, Patrick White, Hal…

Examines the concept of freedom in two of Keneally’s novels, and the nature of institutions which are presented in a way that his heroes fear…

Examines the political consequences inherent in the genre of the ‘well-made novel’. Argues that ‘a reading of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith may tell us…

Discusses the novel’s historical sources and implications (Irish and Australian) and the complexities of the relationship between the two main characters, Phelim Halloran and Robert…

The study of gossip as a cultural practice, as distinct from its condemnation as a moral evil, has not long been established; not, at least…

Thomas Keneally discusses his literary interest in war and history, his work's relationship to Australian literature more broadly, and his process of turning fact into…

Ryan discusses the convict Maurice Fitzgerald, whose biography inspired both Keneally's novel Passenger and Fitzgerald's poem 'The Wind at Your Door'.

Ehrhardt provides a checklist of works by and about Thomas Keneally.

“Acknowledges Keneally’s seeming contradiction of being both a popular and serious novelist. Yet argues that in spite of the popular elements in his work, Keneally…

Historian Henry Reynolds examines the historical background of and model for Keneally’s novel and focuses on four things: “to outline the general background to race…

Clancy examines Fred Schepisi's adaptation of Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, considering the difficulties the novel's plot and technique present the filmmaker…

Discusses Keneally's fictional treatment of homosexuality, particularly in A Victim of the Aurora snd Bring Larks and Heroes.

Among the cultural 'hetero-images' in Australian writing of the past four decades, German images have, for obvious reasons, been mostly unfavourable. They have usually emphasised…

Using three Australian novels of exploration as examples, I should like to suggest that the romance of exploration is invariably the romance of love but…

In Australia, Tom Keneally is one writer who may be said to have had a distinct social impact. He has inspired white Australians to reimagine…

Thomas Keneally is among the best-selling, most widely reviewed and financially successful of modern Australian writers. None of these results of a long, diligent devotion…

While Thomas Keneally himself generously acknowledges that 'the critics made me' (Pierce, Interview), few Australian authors - in the course of long, productive and internationally…

That war is both a monstrous, but an ineradicably human activity a horror for individuals but an essential element in the making and memory of…

Discusses David Malouf's Harland's Half Acre (1984), Thomas Keneally's A Family Madness (1985) and Rodney Hall's Captivity Captive (1988), arguing that 'All three insist, in…

So at fifty years, what can we say? An easy conclusion would be that Keneally is best understood (as he himself has suggested from time…