‘Lynch’s exploration of nineteenth-century Australian burlesque argues that while colonial Australia participated in a larger irreverent, comic culture of popular medievalism, its apparent irreverence toward…
Ada Cambridge's description of 'The Chase', the imposing Norfolk seat of the Desailly family, in her 1897 novella 'At Midnight', captures in a single architectural…
Discusses Stow's medievalism in The Girl Green as Elderflower and Visitants. 'In its indirect and playful form [Stow's medievalism] offers reparation for colonial visiting…
CHRISTOPHER Brennan's propagandist A Chant ofDoom (1918) has very little value as poetry, and what critics have said about it is adequately damning. Judith Wright's…
Francis Webb's verse-sequence on St Francis of Assisi, 'The Canticle', from Birthday (1953) has been acknowledged as a watershed in his career (Griffith, Life and…