Australian Literary Studies articles from May 2003

Australian Literary Studies archives from May 2003

The Dutch-Australian connection: Willem Siebenhaar, D.H. Lawrence, Max Havelaar and Kangaroo.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... And the spiritual body is supposed to be something thin and immaterial, that can float through a brick wall and subsist on mere thought. Jack had always hated this thin, wafting object. He preferred his body solid. He loved the beautiful weight...

Gender and race relations in Elizabeth O'Conner's northern homesteads.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... CHARACTERISTIC of 'the dire years of political and social conservatism' (Sheridan 158) which followed World War II was a desire, an aspect of the mentality of Fortress Australia, to reformulate and reaffirm the conservative values of the...

Shrouded histories: Outlaw and Lawmaker, republican politics and women's interests.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... IN this essay I want to discuss some problems of recovering the public career and political interests of the expatriate colonial writer, Rosa Campbell Praed. The paper will focus on Outlaw and Lawmaker (1893), which Robert Dixon has assigned to...

Wishing for modernity: temporality and desire in Gould's Book of Fish.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... Upon arrival in that stinking grotty modern world of Van Diemen's Land in the stinking late summer heat, all hideous new sandstone warehouses and customs houses and chaingangs and redcoats, I was assigned to Palmer the coachbuilder in...

Getting a head: dismembering and remembering in Robert Drewe's The Savage Crows.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... EARLY in Robert Drewe's 1978 novel The Savage Crows there is a graphic description of the treatment of the body of William Lanney (Anderson 10; Ryan 214-18), the supposed last 'full-blood' Tasmanian Aboriginal male, who died in 1869. It is a...

Treating Dora in 'His Natural Life.'(women in the works of Marcus Clarke)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... TURNING from introductory information to the 'wider meanings' of Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life inevitably mined Australian literature's early professionals to the character of Richard Devine/Rufus Dawes. The phrase is Michael Wilding's and...

'Does all Melbourne smell like this?': the Colonial Metropolis in Marvellous Melbourne.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... MELBOURNE became marvellous in 1885, when George Augustus Sala appealed to the vanity of the colonial city with a series of articles that included one entitled 'Marvellous Melbourne'--indeed Graeme Davison asserts that the colonial inferiority...

'Those ungodly pressmen': the early years of the Brisbane Johnsonian Club.
May 1, 2003... THE Literary Club that Dr Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds founded in London in 1764, and that was still active in 1969 (Clifford and Green 117, entry 6:9), has been a source of inspiration to successive Johnsonian clubs that have spread...

Annual bibliography of studies in Australian literature: 2002.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2003... This is the fortieth 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...

Christina Stead: Satirist.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Christina Stead: Satirist, by Anne Pender. Altona, Vic.: Common Ground: 2002. Paperback, $30. The Enigmatic Christina Stead: A Provocative Re-Reading, by Teresa Petersen. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Paperback, $29.95. ...

A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945: A National Culture in a Colonised Market.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... edited by Martyn Lyons and John Arnold. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2001. Hardback, $50.00. Literary studies have changed, as readers of this review will know well. They are increasingly concerned with context, one...

Australian Short Fiction: a History.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... by Brace Bennett. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2002. Paperback, $27. In the conclusion to his acknowledgments Brace Bennett speaks of his debt to the writers of short fiction who have given him 'such pleasure' and have...

Books received.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2003... Anderson, Hugh, ed. Australian Writing in China: Studies and Translations 1954-2000. Hotham Hill, Vic.: Red Rooster Press, 2002. A revised, expanded version of the 1989 publication, covering translations and criticism. Ballyn, Susan, Geoff...