Convict transportation
Articles
- Criminal Transport: George Barrington and the Colonial Cure
Examines the representation of criminality and convicts in the work of George Barrington and argues that his stunningly successful Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) is…
1 May 2002 - Some Convict Sources in Keneally and Fitzgerald
Ryan discusses the convict Maurice Fitzgerald, whose biography inspired both Keneally's novel Passenger and Fitzgerald's poem 'The Wind at Your Door'.
1 May 1980 - John Grant: Australia’s First ‘Really’ Radical Poet
The colonisation of Aboriginal land is a moment of at least two clear examples of British imperial barbarity. In their study Dark Side of the…
1 May 1994 - Antipodal Ireland and Tasmanian Underworlds: John Mitchel and William Moore Ferrar
The Central Highlands of Tasmania is an unlikely antipodes of Irish writing, but it is a region that has complex representations by exiled and immigrant…
30 September 2021