Writer's recognition & popularity

Stuart shows how Clarke's celebrated description the 1873 Melbourne Cup in the Herald was taken directly from that of the Chester Cup in Clarke's first…

No one seems to have made a detailed critical analysis of the work as a novel, although it was conveniently labelled one of the finest…

One possible and useful means of trying to determine how far Mackenzie may have fulfilled the undoubted promise he showed, is through an examination of…

'Whatever a stern criticism may say as to the abiding merit of his work, at least there can be no doubt as to the value…

This paper examines Henry Kingsley's critical reception and his uncertain position in nineteenth century literary history. Wellings examines elements of Ravenshoe otherwise not accounted for…

A reappraisal of Baylebridge’s work in the light of what the author calls an ‘ambivalent’ attitude of previous critics towards Baylebridge.

The history of The Sentimental Bloke and his critics presents a number of interesting questions which in the first instance are literary, but expand into…

Whatever happened to Alan Seymour? For a time, in the early sixties he was generally considered to rank second only to Ray Lawler among Australian…

Knight interviews Alan Yates, better known as Carter Brown, the English-born Australian writer of detective fiction.

Donovan examines Kendall’s letters in relation to the poet’s critical views of himself and of some of his Australian and English contemporaries.

It is now eight years since the first book by Kath Walker caused a stir in Australian literary circles; and she has recently published her…

Challenges H.M. Green’s judgement that William Gosse Hay’s talent was ‘not of the first order, even by Australian standards’. Investigates the basis of this reputation…

'What Australian authors are there? And what do we honestly know about this strange, distant part of the world? What do we really know about…

Examines the representation of criminality and convicts in the work of George Barrington and argues that his stunningly successful Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) is…

In paying tribute to Dorothy Green, Sheridan recalls the generation of women writers and artists who emerged in the 1940s and 1950s, their social visions…

The successful writer within Australia is, at least from time to time, as much a product of the promotional world of celebrity as of the…

Russell Braddon responds to a survey asking about his approach to war as a subject or vehicle for fiction, the challenges of doing so, the…

I propose in this paper to exercise the critic's prerogative (duty?) of articulating an artist's intuitions about his own work into a more formal and…

John Shaw Neilson once remarked that 'Some people seem to think that it [the lyric] should be as definite as an ironmonger's catalogue, and as…

Sarah Campion, an ardent traveller, spent several months in Sydney and in North Queensland in 1939. Many of her experiences and observations in Europe, North…