Australian Literary Studies articles from October 2002

Australian Literary Studies archives from October 2002

On appropriation: two novels of Dark and Barnard Eldershaw.(Eleanor Dark)(Marjorie Barnard Eldershaw)(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... In 1945 Eleanor Dark published The Little Company; two years later Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Both were written during, and prompted by, the second world war, and locate at least part of their action in Sydney...

Wilde identifications: queering the sexual and the national in the work of Eve Langley.(lesbianism literary themes)(literary influence of Oscar Wilde)(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... To come to the work of the novelist Eve Langley is to come to a body of texts by a still marginalised figure in Australian literature--a writer who has always attracted critical attention but still continues to slip from view in contemporary...

Obscene and over here: national sex and the Love Me Sailor obscenity case.
October 1, 2002... On March 13 1946, Robert Close sat on a wooden bench in the Victorian Supreme Court, and listened to his novel being read aloud. Copies had been distributed to the jury and the Crown prosecutor, Leo Little KC, stood in the middle of the room...

My Brilliant Career: the career of the Career.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... From the perspective of 2001, this book appears to have appeared on the scene at exactly the right time--it was Federation year, women all over Australia were about to get the vote, and many `brilliant careers' were expected from young women of...

Contesting enslavement: marriage, manhood and My Brilliant Career.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... In 1903 A.G. Stephens, literary editor and mentor, wrote to Miles Franklin about the `bruise' scene in My Brilliant Career. `Is this your experience', he inquired. `Does it represent your own feelings? Why should the marks and pain of bruises...

Reading My Brilliant Career.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... Some years ago I was teaching a course on nineteenth-century Australian literature which involved lectures on both Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901) and Joseph Furphy's Such is Life (1903). Writing the lectures started me thinking...

My Brilliant Career and 1890s Goulburn.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... Line one of the text of My Brilliant Career reads `Possum Gully, near Goulburn'. This simple opening address has yet to receive its due. For all that has been said about My Brilliant Career over the past one hundred years, the fact that it was...

My Brilliant Career and radicalism.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... The trouble with historians, Miles Franklin wrote in 1947, is that they are far too fond of `repetition'. (1) She may well have been right. This is by no means the first attempt to assess the radicalism of My Brilliant Career: in the 1980s, in...

`Unrelaxing fortitude': Susannah Franklin.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... When Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career was published in 1901, members of the public, as well as the extended Franklin family, assumed the work to be autobiographical. Many readers wrote to the young author, directing their letters to...

My Brilliant Career and feminism.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... `Do you remember Miss Spence's novel Clara Morison,' Miles Franklin asked Alice Henry in September 1930. `I had no idea the dear old valiant was of such stature in that direction. For a literary artist to be drawn away by causes is a form of...

The Bibliography of Australian Literature, A-E.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The Bibliography of Australian Literature, A-E, edited by John Arnold and John Hay. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2001. Hardback, $225.00 Index to Serials in Australian Periodicals and Newspapers: Nineteenth Century, by Toni...

Faking Literature.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... by K.K. Ruthven. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Paperback, $49.95 `Pleasure in the spurious helps perpetuate it' (89), writes K.K. Ruthven, author of Faking Literature. And he is right. Indeed, the argument that Ruthven makes...

Siting the Other: Re-visions of Marginality in Australian and Anglophone Canadian Drama.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... edited by Marc Maufort. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2001. Hardback, US$49.95 Marc Maufort introduces this book as a `sequel' to his earlier collection of essays, Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama (Peter Lang,...

Struggle and Storm: The Life and Death of Francis Adams.(two biography reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Struggle and Storm: The Life and Death of Francis Adams, by Meg Tasker. Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Hardback, $39.95 Jock: A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson, by Cliff Hanna. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press,...

Books received.(Bibliography)
October 1, 2002... Blainey, Geoffrey, ed. and intro. Henry Lawson. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2002. Collection of twenty-one stories and seven poems, with an introductory essay `A Genius to the Fingertips' (25pp). Jacobs, Lyn. Against the Grain: Beverley...