Australian Literary Studies articles from April 2006

Australian Literary Studies archives from April 2006

First Steps toward a history of the mid-Victorian novel in colonial Australia.
April 1, 2006... CERTAIN stories in the history of Australian reading, some of them apocryphal, reflect ironically on one of the governing narratives of print culture studies and postcolonial studies: the narrative of print's 'mastery over the whole world'...

Mid-Victorian reading and the Antipodes.
April 1, 2006... It takes more than endurance and greed to make an empire. It requires imagination, and the more centralised an empire, the more imagination is required: not just to imagine what might be made of a newly acquired territory, but to believe that...

Not reading the nation: Australian readers of the 1890s.
April 1, 2006... IN the twelve years when I was editing the literary journal Southerly, I often had occasion to complain that far more people wished to publish their fiction and poetry in the journal than wanted to buy it and read it. Looking back over several...

Becoming native: Australian novelists and the New Zealand Wars.
April 1, 2006... ELEVEN novels about the New Zealand Wars, or, as they were then known, the Maori Wars, were published before the end of the nineteenth century. Of these, four were instructional adventure stories designed for young readers; (1) three maintained...

'Some means of learning of the best new books': All About Books and the Modern Reader.
April 1, 2006... We launch this Journal on a sea already overcrowded with journals, magazines and daily and weekly papers of all kinds, to say nothing of a superabundance of books published each month--this is just the trouble. As very ordinary members of the...

The age of appreciation: reading and teaching classic literature in Australia in the early twentieth century.
April 1, 2006... THE word 'appreciation' has probably now lost the power it once had to denote sensitive, sympathetic and detailed reflection and commentary on a piece of literature. Its currency as 'liking' or 'gratitude', whether in the vulgar-genteel...

Reading (in/and) Miranda.
April 1, 2006... AUSTRALIAN fiction, like that of all nations, is written, published, received and read in the context of a literary canon, both national and transnational. In regards to women's fiction in Australia, this canon is predominantly composed of...

Fresh Light on A.G. Stephens as editor of Barcroft Boake's works.
April 1, 2006... BARCROFT Boake, a minor Bulletin balladist best known for his 'Where the Dead Men Lie', suicided in 1892 when just 26 years old. A few years later a collection of his works was edited by A.G. Stephens. In 1965 Clement Semmler wrote a little...

'Where the Dead Men Lie'.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2006... THE poem 'Where the Dead Men Lie' is Barcroft Boake's best known work. It became the title poem for A.G. Stephens's 1897 collection of Boake's works, and the phrase was used as the title for Hugh Capel's imaginative life of Boake published in...

Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 2005.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2006... This is the forty-third annual bibliography to be published in Australian Literary Studies. Primarily devoted to substantial commentaries useful to criticism and scholarship, the series aims to provide as complete a listing as possible of books...

Marcus Clarke's Bohemia: Literature and Modernity in Colonial Melbourne.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Marcus Clarke's Bohemia: Literature and Modernity in Colonial Melbourne, by Andrew McCann. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2004. $49.95. It is rare for a nineteenth-century Australian writer to be the subject of such a distinguished and...

Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Imagining Australia." Literature and Culture in the New New World, edited by Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2005. Hardcover; $55. What is the value in a collection of conference papers like Imagining...

A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English, edited by Prem Poddar and David Johnson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh LIP, 2005. US$ 95. The title of this unusual reference book--A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in...

Transcultural Graffiti: Diasporic Writing and the Teaching of Literary Studies.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Transcultural Graffiti: Diasporic Writing and the Teaching of Literary Studies, by Russell West-Pavlov. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. US$ 63. The broad thesis of this book is that cultural work, and even more so, transcultural work,...

Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the Colonial 'Self,' Mapping the Indigenous 'Other' in the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the Colonial 'Self,' Mapping the Indigenous 'Other' in the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand, edited by Francoise Kral. Confluences XXV. GRRIP et Centre de Recherches Espaces/Ecritures, University Paris...

Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey, edited by Andreas Guile. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. Hardcover, US$119. In difficult publishing times such as ours, when it becomes something of a gamble to try and sell an edited...

Books received.(Bibliography)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Fahey, Warren, and Graham Seal, eds. OM Bush Songs: The Centenary Edition of Banjo Paterson's Classic Collection. Sydney: ABC Books, 2005. A reissued and expanded edition of Banjo Paterson's 1905 and 1924 anthologies of bush ballads. Contains...