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The Penguin New Literary History of Australia

Volume 13 No. 4

1 October 1988

A Lost Dimension: The Immigrant’s Experience In the Work of David Malouf
The Snake
Verses
Sonnet
Rufus Dawes, Novelist
Review of *Gwen Harwood* ed. Robert Sellick; and *Reading Australian Poetry* by Andrew Taylor
Family and the Father in the Poetry of Les A. Murray
Fishing at Sundown
The Spruiker
Review of *Mapped But Not Known: The Australian Landscape of the Imagination*, ed. P .R. Eadcn and F.H. Mares
The Stream
The Island
Review of *Louisa* by Brian Matthews
Getting Things Straight With Comrade Pope
John Manifold: Poet At Cambridge
Joe Lynch, Bohemian Hero of Five Bells
Ancestors
Review of *The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia*, general editor Peter Pierce, assistant editor Rosemary Hunter, and twelve associates
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1987
Biography and Fiction : George Johnston’s Meredith Trilogy and Garry Kinane’s Biography
David Malouf’s *Child’s Play* and ‘The Death of the Author’
May Day
Review of *Louisa* by Brian Matthews
‘What You See Must Be Other’: Language and Eros in the Poetry of Richard Kelly Tipping
Australian Paintings in England
Facey’s A Fortunate Life and Traditional Oral Narratives
Sheer Voice and Fidget Wheels: A Study of 'Five Bells'

Volume 13 No. 3

1 May 1988

Charles Harpur and the Myth of Origins
Catherine Martin, Writer: Her Life and Ideas
The Penguin and the Man-O’-War Hawk: Joseph Furphy’s Critical Reputation, 1903-1947
Reopening the Case of Ada Cambridge
Review of *Robert D. FitzGerald* ed. Julian Croft; and *A Tribute to David Campbell, A Collection of Essays* ed. Harry Heseltine
Review of *Adam Lindsay Gordon: a Comprehensive Bibliography* by Ian F. McLaren
Review of *National Fictions: Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative* by Graeme Turner
Interview with Jack London
Review of *Catherine Helen Spence* ed. Helen Thomson; and *Point of Departure. The Autobiography of Jean Devanny* ed. Carole Ferrier
Shirley Hazzard: Transit and *The Bay of Noon*
A Christina Stead Letter
Getting Started: The Emergence of Christina Stead’s Early Fiction
Christina Stead’s ‘Drama of the Person’
Romance Australia: Love in Australian Literature of Exploration

Volume 13 No. 2

1 October 1987

Review of *The Australian Short Story: An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s*; *The Australian Short Story 1940-1980: A bibliography*; and *Lines of Implication: Australian Short Fiction from Lawson to Palmer*
Review of *Hot Copy: Reading and Writing Now* by Don Anderson; *Yacker: Australian Writers Talk About Their Work* by Candida Baker; and *Rooms of their Own* by Jennifer Ellison
James McAuley’s Captain Quiros
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1986
From Pleasure Domes to Bark Huts: Architectural Metaphors in Recent Australian Fiction
Steele Rudd’s Real Dad: An Exiled Convict?
Anthologies and Orthodoxies
Review of *The Lyre in the Pawnshop: Essays on Literature and Survival 1974-1984* by Fay Zwicky; and *The Uncertain Self: Essays in Australian Literature and Criticism* by Harry Heseltine
Drama’s Vitallest Expression: The Fiction of Olga Masters
Review of *Death is a Good Solution* by A.W. Baker; and *Snow on the Saltbush* by Geoffrey Dutton
Reminiscences of Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie and E.L. Grant Watson
A Survey of Australian Utopian and Dystopian Fiction
A.B. Facey’s Australian Autobiography

Volume 13 No. 1

1 May 1987

Apollo in George Street
American Dreaming : The Fictions of Peter Carey
Review of *The Australian Stage: A Documentary History*, ed. Harold Love
Voices in Time: *A Kindness Cup* and *Miss Peabody’s Inheritance*
An Interview with Thomas Keneally
Review of *A History of Australian Literature, vol 1 1789-1923, vol. 2 1923-1950* by H.M. Green, rev. Dorothy Green; and *A History of Australian Literature* by Ken Goodwin
Review of *Unbridling the Tongues of Women. A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence*, by Susan Magarey
Review of *Strange Country: A Study of Randolph Stow*, by Anthony J. Hassall
A Lost Satire on the 1890s *Bulletin* Writers and Bohemians
Newspaper Publications of Novels of Ada Cambridge
Editing A.D. Hope
On Finding ‘Australia’: Mirages, Mythic Images, Historical Circumstances
Francis Webb’s Collected Poems
Review of *The Australian Short Story before Lawson*, ed. Cecil Hadgraft
Review of *The Portrayal of Women in the Fiction of Henry Handel Richardson*, *Gender, Politics and Fiction. Twentieth Century Australian Women's Novels*, *Dictionary of the Australian Theatre. 1788-1914*, *Henry Handel Richardson: a Critical Study*
The Sites of War in the Fiction of Thomas Keneally
John Tranter: Absence in Flight

Volume 12 No. 4

1 October 1986

Reading Men Like Signboards: The Egalitarian Semiotic of *Such is Life*
Rufus Dawes and Changing Narrative Perspectives in *His Natural Life*
Lawler’s Demythologizing of the Doll: Kid Stakes and Other Times
A Patrick White Sketch
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1985
A Letter from Shirley Hazzard
Correspondence
Correspondence
Review of six recent critical studies of Patrick White
Research in Progress in Australian Literature [1986]
*The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony*: Hal Porter’s Triumph of Creative Contradiction
Art as Reflection in Jessica Anderson’s *Tirra Lirra by the River*
Texts and Contexts of the Availability and Editing of Australian Texts
The Public Image of John Shaw Neilson
Review of *Wild Man of Letters: The Story of P.R. Stephensen* by Craig Munro
Some Sources of *White Stag of Exile*
Rolf Boldrewood’s *War to the Knife*: Narrative Form and Ideology in the Historical Novel
After *925*

Volume 12 No. 3

1 May 1986

The Boer War: Paterson, Abbott, Brennan, Miles Franklin and Morant
War Poetry: Myth as De-formation and Re-formation
War in Post-1960s Fiction: Johnston, Stow, McDonald, Malouf and Les Murray
The Usable Past: Australian War Fiction of the 1950s
‘Preserving the White Race’: Some Australian Women’s Literary Responses to the Great War
[Statements about War Literature]
[Statement]
[Statement]
Checklist of Significant Historical Books and Articles, 1965-1985 on Australia’s Involvements in War
[Statement]
[Statement]
[Statement]
From the Sudan to Saigon: A Critical Review of Historical Works
A Checklist of Australian Prose of the Second World War
A Checklist of Australian Literature of the First World War
The Rise of the Prisoner-of-War Writers
War Correspondents in Australian Literature: An Outline
Perceptions of the Enemy in Australian War Literature
A Checklist of Australian Literature of the Vietnam War

Volume 12 No. 2

1 October 1985

Asian Stereotypes in Recent Australian Plays
Xavier Herbert
Fact and Fiction: The Scissors and Paste Job
The Poetry of Les Murray
Kipling’s Visit and the Early Reception of His Books in Australia (1889-1900)
Review of *The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship* by Sylvia Lawson
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature : 1984
Review of *Springtime in Taranaki: An Autobiography of Youth* by Douglas Stewart
Review of *Christopher Brennan*, ed. with introduction and notes by Terry Sturm
Short Notices
From Ballarat to Bendigo with Mark Twain
Xavier Herbert, H.G. Wells and J.S. Huxley: Unexpected British Connections
Review of *In A Critical Condition* by John Docker; and *The Music of Love: Critical Essays on Literature and Life* by Dorothy Green
Some Remarks on the Late Great Hal Porter
Reviewing Communism: *Communist Review* (Sydney) 1934-1966: A Checklist of Literary Material
Review of *Out of Eden: Henry Lawson's Life and Works* by Xavier Pons
Here Beyond My Knowing
Some Henry Lawson Letters to Edward Garnett
At the Edge: Geography and the Imagination in the Work of David Malouf

Volume 12 No. 1

1 May 1985

*State of the Art* Contributors - A Survey
Byzantine References in *The Twyborn Affair*
Adam McCay and Sydney’s Literary Bohemia (1911-1947)
Review of *A Tragic Vision: The Novels of Patrick White* by A.M. McCulloch
Review of *The Dictionary of Australian Quotations*, ed. Stephen Murray-Smith
Review of *Marcus Clarke: an Annotated Bibliography*, by Ian F. McLaren.
A Lady’s Letter from London: 1873-1908
Review of *The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur', ed. Elizabeth Perkins
Review of *Who Is She? Images of Woman in Australian Fiction', ed. Shirley Walker
Asia and the Contemporary Australian Novel
David Campbell’s Poetic Mind
Review of *Marcus Clarke: An Annotated Bibliography* by Ian F. McLaren
The Reconstruction of Self: Background and Design in George Johnston’s Meredith Trilogy
Australian Literature: A Preliminary Subject Checklist
Review of 'Ezra Pound in Melbourne', *Helix* Nos. 3 & 14, ed. Les Harrop and Noel Stock
Interviewed by Martin Harrison
Mateship, Individualism and the Production of Character in Australian Fiction

Volume 11 No. 4

1 October 1984

God’s Sublime Order in Harpur’s ‘The Creek of the Four Graves’
The Reviewer and Miss Robertson
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1983
Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, and Marcus Clarke
Three Talks: David Malouf, Les Murray and David Rowbotham: David Rowbotham
Review of *Here's Lower* by Lennie Lower, ill. Patrick Cook, with a memoir by Cyril Pearl, selected by Tom Thompson
Review of *The Passing Guest: A Life of Henry Kingsley* by J.S.D. Mellick
Joseph Furphy: An Annotated Checklist of Items in Periodicals
Discoveries and Transformations: Aspects of David Malouf’s Work
The D.H. Lawrence - P.R. Stephensen Letters
The Struggle of the Modern in Australia
Three Talks: David Malouf, Les Murray and David Rowbotham: Les Murray
Ezra Pound, Frederic Manning and James Griffyth Fairfax
Review of *Unnatural Lives: Studies in Australian Fiction about the Convicts, from James Tucker to Patrick White* by Laurie Hergenhan
Review of *L'aube D'une Nation: les écrivains d'Australie de 1788 á 1910* by Maryvonne Nedelijkovic; and *Die Rezeption australischer Literatur im deutschen Sprachraum von 1845-1979* by Volker Wolf
Review of *Australia on the Popular Stage: 1829-1929* by Margaret Williams
A New Map of Australia: The Plays of David Williamson
Three Talks : David Malouf, Les Murray and David Rowbotham : David Malouf

Volume 11 No. 3

1 May 1984