Ken A. Stewart

Tells the story of the Melbourne Shakespeare Society 1884-1904 and perfomances of the Bard by the city worthies.

Discusses critical responses to The Hand that Signed the Paper, and their perception of Darville/Demidenko.

Arthur Hoey Davis, a diffident twenty-six-year-old clerk, invented 'Steele Rudd' in 1894 as the nom de plume for a rowing column. The pseudonym grew, like…

One of many anecdotes in The Sea Coast of Bohemia is Jack Lindsay's account of 'the party to end all parties', the true parable of…

About a decade ago, Howard Felperin and a few others were pointing out quite correctly that Australian literary scholars had generally ignored modern critical theory…

Lawson and Furphy are quite heterogeneous writers, yoked together by nationalists. They are worth discussing as a pair because they are so different and complementary…

Reviews of the following volumes:

The Poets' Discovery, edited by Richard D. Jordan and Peter Pierce Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1990.

Colonial Voices: Letters,…

Reviews of the following volumes:

Stalwart the Bushranger, by Charles Harpur, edited by Elizabeth Perkins (Sydney Currency Press in association with Australian Drama Studies, St.…

Was Louisa Lawson a termagant? Was she. in the luridly apposite words of the Shorter Oxford's definition, 'a savage, violent, boisterous, overbearing or quarrelsome person…

The paradigm of the Lawson short story has blinded many anthologists and commentators to the local context and traditions he inherited and transformed, and to…

Argues that discussion of the 'meaning, artistry and cultural significance [of 'The Loaded Dog'] can help us to appreciate the significance of Lawson's comic celebration…

There are now ten edited collections in print in the Portable Australian Authors series (general editor, Laurie Hergenhan), of which seven are gatherings of colonial…

Stewart discusses the economic condition and patronage of writers and the literary marketplace in colonial Australia, focusing particularly on the tropes of the 'Neglected Writer'…

The first full length study of Richardson to be published since Nettie Palmer's monograph in 1950 offers a critical reinterpretation and assessment of the fiction…

Stewart examines the European influence on Maurice Guest and demonstrates how Richardson extended and developed the techniques of J. P Jacobsen and others. Stewart explores…

Probably the most important of Richardson's sources for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony are those about which least is known The 'old letters and diaries'…

Kruse and Stewart provide a list of useful articles and books on Australian Literature, and also a selection of the most important reviews and prefaces…