Victorian Literature
Articles
- Introduction
This special issue tracks the ways in which Victorian literary texts and ideas were transformed by their arrival and reception in the Australasian colonies and…
31 October 2015 - 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 - Marcus Clarke, the Two George Eliots, and the History of Two Newspapers
This essay is an experiment in a reader-focused historicism. It reconsiders the cultural-political circumstances under which Marcus Clarke rewrote George Eliot's ‘The Lifted Veil’, reframing…
31 October 2015 - Strange in the Cold Blue Light: Sensation and Science in the Australian Journal
The first weekly instalment of the Australian Journal, published on 2 September 1865, declared its intention to ‘reflect the Literature, Art, and Science of…
31 October 2015 - The Tennysons in Literary Adelaide
For many in Adelaide, the appointment in 1899 of Hallam Tennyson as governor of South Australia was a perfect ending for the nineteenth century. The…
31 October 2015 - The Fortunate Flâneuse
The nineteenth century was a period of extraordinary change, and the built structure of cities became a representation of progress. As a consequence the city…
1 November 2015
Contributors
- Philip Butterss
- Megan Brown
- Robert Dixon
- Tim Dolin
- Susan K. Martin
- Kylie Mirmohamadi
- Kylie Mirmohamadi
- Lucy Sussex