Amongst unexpected literary connections, that between Marcus Clarke and Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the more striking ones. The main context is provided by…
Australian Literary Studies, launched by A.D. Hope in Hobart in August 1963, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2013. This is an unusual span for…
Harry Heseltine was a formative influence in a period of rapid growth in the field of Australian literary studies, from 1960 to the 1990s. He…
The works of Patrick White have attracted more critical commentary than those of any other Australian writer. Since his death there has been a lull…
The Magic Phrase: Critical Articles on Christina Stead, edited by Margaret Harris, appears in the Studies in Australian Literature series (UQP), the only regular…
My note on 'Starting ALS' which appeared in a recent issue (19.4, October 2000) was a preliminary to telling readers that I shall be retiring…
Laurie Hergenhan recalls the formation of Australian Literary Studies, launched at the University of Tasmania on 6 August 1963.
The Academy editions of Australian literature announce themselves as 'the first series of critical editions of major works' (Foreword to each volume). Each volume 'has…
In the absence of any introduction this collection of critical essays leaves its readers to interpret its challenging title. This of course calls up D.H…
As you will know from our editorial in the previous issue, ALS has been forced this year to deal with a serious shortfall in funding…
We have decided to vary our usual procedure and include an editorial for this issue since Australian Literary Studies is at a point at which…
Of all works by earlier women writers it is Barbara Baynton's collection of stories, Bush Studies, that has been the most successfully rescued from…
This annotated bibliography by American scholar Robert Ross is a useful and welcome addition to the recent upsurge of guides and bibliographies. Its contribution can…
This festschrift in honour of Dr Brian Elliott is to be doubly welcomed, as a tribute and as a valuable collection of essays and poems…
Except for passing comment little has been written about the urgent need for reliable editions of Australian literary texts and about the problems this involves…
Discusses a number of war novels which, rather than focussing on military conflicts, centre on the ways in which war has shaped Australian experience. Argues…
In recent times Marcus Clarke has been appreciated not simply as a one-book writer but also for the extent and variety of his writing; for…
Discusses Malouf’s ‘elusive’ fiction in the context of his poetry, concentrating on the treatment of common developing concerns.
In the recent 'Ezra Pound in Melbourne' special issue of Helix (Melbourne, Nos 13/14 1983) Jonathan Marwil's article on the friendship of Pound and Manning…
In a previous review article in ALS (Vol. 10,No. l,May 1981) 'On Our Selection', Adrian Mitchell surveyed a crop of recent special issues of (mainly…
A.D. Hope, Leonie Kramer and Laurie Hergenhan discuss the significance of Australian Literary Studies and its contribution to the study and teaching of Australian Literature.
Hergenhan reviews some recent bibliographic guides to Australian literature.
A sad loss to the world of Australian Literature was the death in August 1981 of Walter Stone, O.A.M., noted bibliographer, publisher, printer, and book…
Grove Day's is the third Gale bibliography in its "American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English series Information Guide Series' to deal with…
Over the last twenty years nineteenth-century Australian literature has received a great deal of re-assessment. It has been increasingly recognized as having more literary interest…
The need for this book and its usefulness arc suggested by the way it has so rapidly become part of the Australian literary studies scene…
Examines the social significance attributed to Price Warung by Vance and Nettie Palmer, Russel Ward and Ian Turner and others.
This checklist is designed to let those interested in the study of Australian literature know what work is currently being undertaken. Previous lists appeared in…
Michael Wilding's study is determinedly appreciative. As he points out, appreciation has grown anew along with a redirecting of attention to Clarke which began in…
Hergenhan describes his discovery of the program for White's first, unpublished play, 'Return to Abyssinia', which opened 11 March 1947 at The Bolton Theatre.
If Ralph Rashleigh was written from the inside, by a convict who never won his freedom in 40 years, it was inevitably written with the…
Hergenhan provides brief reviews of recent work of relevance to Australian literary studies.
The title of Dr Lansbury's book cannot fail to arouse interest for it announces a subject that has stimulated much conjecture yet only sporadic study…
Hergenhan provides brief reviews of recent publications of relevance to Australian literary studies.
Hergenhan provides brief reviews of recently published works of Australian literary and historical scholarship.
The editor of Meanjin Quarterly, Mr C. B. Christesen had (as he says in the Preface) a difficult task in compiling an anthology from…
Hergenhan provides brief reviews of three volumes: On Native Grounds, Selected with a Preface by C.B. Christensen; Meanjin Quarterly Index 1940-65, Compiled by…
Brief notices of new publications in Australian literary and historical scholarship.
In the 'Short Notices' of the last issue of Australian Literary Studies Eunice Hanger's edition, with an introduction, of three Australian plays, Khaki Bush and…
Hergenhan reads and compares contemporary reviews of Geoffry Hamlin, noting differences in the novel's reception between Australian and English reviews.
Hergenhan reveals that after Clarke shortened the serial version of For The Term of His Natural Life for book publication a theme of redemption was…