Australia - Literary portrayal

The Battlers, generally regarded as Kylie Tennant's most successful and probably most characteristic novel, cannot be properly understood without reference to what may conveniently…

Hamer provides a survey of early Australian novels by writers including Henry Kingsley, Rosa Praed, Ada Cambridge, and Charles de Boos. The essay tracks the…

How, then, should we view the recent historiography of our imaginative evolution—as we have to date, as a valid description of what has occurred Or,…

Undoubtedly during the last half of the nineteenth century Australian cities and urban life generally had become vitally important in determining the nature of economic…

Anthony Trollope wrote two novels set wholly or partly in Australia. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil first appeared as the Christmas number of the Graphic in…

Discusses Murray's collection of poems, The People's Otherworld (1984) and collection fo essays, Persistence in Folly (1984), arguing that Murray's work explores the richness of…

Healy examines a spate of novels in the 1890s that were inspired by the association of Australia with the mythical lost continent of Lemuria. Novels…

Among the many historical novels written in Australia during the thirties and forties, The Timeless Land is unique for the way it foregrounds the journals…

Provides a bibliography of works engaged with the subject of 'Australian literature' broadly conceived. It aims at giving a diversified picture of Australian literature by…

In the Australian in 1966 Alan Moorehead was claimed to be the author 'who has written more successful books than any other Australian' (Pocock, Alan…

The meagre information on D. H. Lawrence's stay in Australia in 1922 has been supplemented recently by the publication of a number of his letters…

Periodicals of the 19th century comprehensively informed English readers about journeys to Australia as well as about travels and expeditions on the continent. How extensive…

On Boxing Day 1884 world-famous English journalist and littérateur George Augustus Sala (1828-1895) set out from Liverpool, bound for Australia and New Zealand, via the…

The journals of explorers are an important element in the cultural representation of the geography of Australia and of the nature of its inhabitants. But…

Martin Harrison interviews Peter Porter. Porter discusses his collected poems, his approach to writing poetry and the themes and inspiration of his poetry, among other…

Uses John Morrison’s work as an exemplary case for examining the British dissenting tradition in shaping Australian radicalism. Argues that the strength of the reception…

Examines the presentation of colonialism in some of Praed’s work, in particular in her novel Fugitive Anne with its fantasy of the lost Lemurians.

Discusses 925, a magazine of the working class that made its readers aware 'of the gap between the slogans that are designed to underpin…

Quartermaine examines the critical comparison of Lawson's work to photography, widening discussion of Lawson's realism to consider Lawson's own awareness of visual techniques and approach…

Focusing on a process of reading ‘conscripted’ by Victorian sensation fiction, the article begins ‘by outlining the European tradition of the Antipodes before discussing the…