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- First Steps toward a History of the Mid-Victorian Novel in Colonial Australia
The author’s approach is ‘to use quantitative reading data to analyse the circulation of Victorian written culture in a range of Australian colonial contexts, and…
1 May 2006 - ‘Some Means of Learning of the Best New Books’: All About Books and the Modern Reader
The article proposes a rethinking of the notion of the middle-brow in terms of the proliferation of ‘new books’ in the interwar period, through an…
1 May 2006 - Literary Festivals and Cultural Consumption
The main concerns of this essay are the nature and intensity of the literary experience in the setting of the increasingly popular literary festivals in…
1 May 2009 - Not Reading the Nation: Australian Readers of the 1890s
The article explores the tastes and values of late-nineteenth-century reading groups and societies in Hobart, Sydney and Adelaide, and of their interest (or lack thereof)…
1 May 2006 - ‘I shall tell just such stories as I please’ : Mary Fortune and the Australian Journal
Discusses Mary Fortune's contributions to the Australian Journal, 'a trailblazer for the production of colonial literature'. Focusing on Fortune's essays 'The Tressless Bride' (6…
1 October 2007 - Forgotten Books and Local Readers: Popular Fiction in the Library at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This essay uses the records of local library borrowers' choices in the early twentieth century to approach a body of fiction that has been given…
1 October 2014