The La Trobe Journal articles

Recent articles from The La Trobe Journal

Three neglected women writers of the 1930s: Jean Campbell, 'Capel Boake', and 'Georgia Rivers'.
May 1, 2009... I IN HER introduction to the Virago Press's 1986 reprint of Doris KerFs Painted Clay (1917), published under the pen-name 'Capel Boake; Christine Downer wrote: 'Boake is one of those women writers forgotten by the compilers of Australian literary histories'. (1) Two other Melbourne...

From the editorial chair.
September 22, 2008... I was deeply honoured to have been asked by my friend and colleague John Barnes, in the year of his retirement as editor of The La Trobe Journal, if I would be guest editor of an issue devoted to medieval subjects, planned to coincide with the State Library's The Medieval Imagination...

The hand in the machine: facsimiles, libraries and the politics of scholarship.
September 22, 2008... I In almost exactly twenty-four hours' time, the Premier of Victoria will open the largest exhibition of medieval illuminated manuscripts that has ever been shown in Australia. These manuscripts that will be on display at the State Library of Victoria to the middle of June have been...

'The last thing one might expect': the Mediaeval Court at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In his preface to the Guide to the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866, the exhibition's commissioner John George Knight concludes by underlining the event's principal significance as a showcase for colonial commercial and industrial achievement: The great aim of an Exhibition is to give...

'Thingless names'? The St George legend in Australia.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... The English poet Geoffrey Hill in his Mereian Hymns addresses the eighth-century AngloSaxon ruler Offa as 'King of the perennial holly groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the MS'. Hill readily summons up familiar places and local images to accompany the medieval name. It can not be so in...