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- My Brilliant Career and 1890s Goulburn
‘Evidence from the novel, the Franklin Papers at the Mitchell Library, and the wonderfully informative Goulburn Evening Post indicates that while Franklin always insisted “the…
1 October 2002 - Revisiting the ‘Mystery of a Novel Contest’ : The Daily Telegraph and Come in Spinner
The terms of the contest, launched in late 1945, seemed straightforward enough. The Sydney Daily Telegraph would award £1000 for the best Australian novel and…
1 October 2000 - The Literary News, 1882-1883
In the last two decades of the nineteenth century there is growing evidence of attempts to encourage the spread of literary culture and Australian writing…
1 May 1976 - Review of The American Model: Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry ed. Joan Kirkby, and Cross Currents: Magazines and Newspapers in Australian Literature ed. Bruce Bennett
The Oxford History of Australian Literature has been widely condemned for its attempt to exclude all contexts apart from the entirely literary in its survey…
1 October 1982 - Rediscoverd Lawson Sketch of 1863 ‘Selection Farms’
‘Paul Eggert writes on the discovery of Henry Lawson’s prose sketch ‘Selection Farms’.
1 October 2012 - Marcus Clarke, the Two George Eliots, and the History of Two Newspapers
This essay is an experiment in a reader-focused historicism. It reconsiders the cultural-political circumstances under which Marcus Clarke rewrote George Eliot's ‘The Lifted Veil’, reframing…
31 October 2015 - Review of A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History, by Katherine Bode
Katherine Bode has written a bold and illuminating book. A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History asks difficult questions and…
5 July 2019