Bush

According to Sidney J. Baker, the term 'bush' arrived in Australia about 1800 'and by 1820 bad more or less completely ousted the English "woods"…

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…

The Government statistician estimated that at the end of 1887 there were in the colony of New South Wales about 471,000 women and girls, so…

This essay offers a consideration of what I take to be the convention of 'metaphysical' pastoral in Australian poetry, together with some speculation as to…

The six, relatively neglected Australian novels of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, written between 1914 and 1935, present an intriguing and complex reworking of their author's…

A sense of 'who I was' issues from the record of the life; it does not precede and shape that record. Langford's need to articulate…

Argues that 'there were features of Bert's world which make it more appropriately thought of as a residually oral culture, and which suggest that a…

Malouf's choice of subject matter is not arbitrary. His story is one version of an archetypal Romantic story, whose particulars change according to the teller…

Focusing on Drewe's The Savage Crows (1976) and White's A Fringe of Leaves (1976), Stow compares the authors' approaches to history and the fictionalising of…

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…

Discusses contemporary rewritings of Lawson's 'The Drover's Wife', including versions by Murray Bail, Frank Moorhouse, Barbara Jefferis, Anna Gambling and Ola Masters/ Argues that these…