Rolf Boldrewood
Articles
- Narrative Perspective and Cultural History in Robbery Under Arms
Rosenberg looks at Robbery Under Arms as a reflection of Boldrewood’s ideas about life. George Storefield and Dick Marston represent different poles between which Browne…
1 May 1973 - Ripping Yarns, Ideology, and Robbery Under Arms
Turner offers a reading of Robbery Under Arms as an adventure story and assesses its merit in terms of that genre. The portrayal of characters…
1 October 1989 - Review of Adam Lindsay Gordon by W.H. Wilde; and Rolf Boldrewood by Alan Brissendon
Boldrewood and Gordon are both buried in Brighton cemetery, and they were both enthusiasts in the nineteenth-century cult of the horse. And that is just…
1 May 1974 - Review of Rolf Boldrewood: A Life, by Paul de Serville
This is a fascinating subject for a biography. Thomas Browne was author of one of the best-known Australian novels of the nineteenth century, Robbery under…
1 October 2003 - Rolf Boldrewood’s War to the Knife: Narrative Form and Ideology in the Historical Novel
In The Historical Novel, Georg Lukacs suggested that Sir Walter Scott's limited understanding of the historical present did not prevent him, as a writer…
1 May 1986 - Before the Nation: Rolf Boldrewood and the Problem of Scale in National Literatures
While Babes in the Bush is an artefact of Federation nationalism, the original serial, An Australian Squire, belongs to an earlier, pre-Federation era of…
31 October 2015