English literature & writers
Articles
- English Heritage and Australian Culture: The Church and Literature of England in Oscar and Lucinda
My argument is in three parts: first, about how Oscar and Lucinda seems to be signalling the need for a move away from the Church…
1 October 1995 - Kipling’s Visit and the Early Reception of His Books in Australia (1889-1900)
Since Kipling was no ordinary traveller, his actual exploits and his early reputation among the Australians are both of interest. A study of the reception…
1 May 1985 - Xavier Herbert, H.G. Wells and J.S. Huxley: Unexpected British Connections
Examines three types of influence H. G. Wells (and through him J. S. Huxley) had on Herbert: psychological, scientific or intellectual, and literary.
1 May 1985 - Assimilation or Appropriation: Uses of European Literary Forms in Black Australian Writing
In his introduction to the anthology of Aboriginal poetry, Inside Black Australia Kevin Gilbert writes: 'Aboriginal poetry rattles, flings and bends the chains and…
1 October 1992 - Mid-Victorian Reading and the Antipodes
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…
1 May 2006 - The Bridled Pegaroo, or, Is there a Colonial Poetics of Intertextuality
Greek myth relates how Pegasus, immediately after its birth, flew to Mount Helicon, where the stamping of its hoofs caused the Hippocrene Spring, the source…
1 June 1991 - Review of D. H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the Edge of Empire, by David Game
Preconceptions of another country can take hold of an artist’s imagination – as ‘America’ did Kafka’s and Lorca’s – but who knew that D. H…
2 November 2018