Publishing history
Articles
- Review of Australian Literary Magazines 1923-1954 by John Tregenza
'To hell with literature / let's start a magazine', wrote E. E. Cummings, and the rest of his amusing poem is not without relevance to…
1 December 1964 - The Date of Composition of Ralph Rashleigh
It has generally been assumed that Ralph Rashleigh was composed in 1844 or 1845. Indeed, the introductory note to the manuscript, signed by 'a Squatter'…
1 October 1974 - The Hibernian Father: Mysteries Solved and Unsolved
Oppenheim discusses the authorship and origins of the play The Hiberian Father, focusing on its similarities to an earlier Irish play, The Warden of…
1 June 1967 - Review of Dear Robertson: Letters to an Australian Publisher by A.W. Barker
The story of book publishing in Australia remains largely untold though historians are beginning to exhume the evidence which will expose this little understood and…
1 October 1983 - Review of Journal of an Era: Notes from the Red Letter Days, by Jack Beasley
Jack Beasley's Journal of an Era: Notes from the Red Letter Days is a companion volume to his earlier Red Letter Days: Notes from Inside…
1 October 1989 - Gay and Lesbian Writing and Publishing in Australia, 1961-2001
‘The first part of this essay contextualises that community-based discussion by providing analysis and interpretation of publishing trends, with a particular focus on novels and…
1 May 2010 - Review of The Journalistic Javelin: An Illustrated History of the Bulletin by Patricia Wolfe, and The Bulletin 29 January 1980 (Centenary issue).
Histories of the Bulletin by journalists associated with the paper during its century of survival, or continual reincarnation, have their own history by now. When…
1 October 1980 - ‘Scorched Earth’, Washington and the Missing Manuscript of Christina Stead’s I’m Dying Laughing
Pender’s article reveals information from newly discovered Christina Stead manuscripts, and proposes a new reading, in the light of these materials, of Stead’s posthumously published…
1 May 2004 - Review of Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia, by John McLaren, and A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia 1946-96, by Geoffrey Dutton
These very different books - one a study of cultural conflicts and controversies, particularly of how these were pursued in little magazines; the other a…
1 May 1997 - Editing ALS: A Memoir
Australian Literary Studies, launched by A.D. Hope in Hobart in August 1963, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2013. This is an unusual span for…
1 June 2013 - ‘Our Literary Connexion’: Rosa Praed and George Bentley
This essay examines Rosa Praed’s communication ‘through letters, agreements, publisher’s ledgers, and memoirs of her dealings with one of her early publishers, George Bentley of…
1 October 2012 - ‘An Explosive Novel of Strange Passions’: Horwitz Publications and Australia’s Pulp Modernism
The scant academic attention Australia’s pulp publishing industry has received to date tends to focus on pulp as a quickly and cheaply made form of…
19 December 2019 - Irishness as a Literary Condition: Australia and its Irish Reading and Writing Community
This paper documents the literary origins of the notion of Irishness; why it mattered, and why it persists as a significant discourse running through Australian…
30 September 2021 - Authorial Editing, Retrospective Reading and Short Story Publishing: New Approaches to Christos Tsiolkas
This essay examines Christos Tsiolkas’s short stories. Tsiolkas’s stories are less widely known compared to his novels and often unsettle the view of his writing…
28 October 2021
Contributors
- Mark Azzopardi
- Harold J. Boehm
- Michael Hurley
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Brian Kiernan
- Brian Kiernan
- James McAuley
- Craig Munro
- Kevin Molloy
- Andrew Nette
- Helen Oppenheim
- Anne Pender
- Chris Tiffin
- Michael Wilding