New Zealand history
Articles
- Becoming Native: Australian Novelists and the New Zealand Wars
In focussing on four Australian novels on the New Zealand (or Maori) Wars, Wevers discusses these questions: ‘Why were Australian writers drawn to the New…
1 May 2006 - Reading Dickens
Discusses communities of readers and the reception of Dickens in 19th century Australia and New Zealand. 'The very large colonial Dickens network, of references to…
1 October 2014 - Reading Byron in Kororāreka: The Journal of Ensign Best
This essay offers a case study of the reading habits of Lieutenant Abel Dottin William Best, who arrived in Port Nicholson in June 1840. He…
31 October 2015