Romantic literature
Articles
- Havelock Ellis’s Australian Idyll
WHEN you consider how much Australiana is now available which only a few years ago was virtually inaccessible, it is a little surprising that no…
1 June 1967 - Becoming Native: Australian Novelists and the New Zealand Wars
In focussing on four Australian novels on the New Zealand (or Maori) Wars, Wevers discusses these questions: ‘Why were Australian writers drawn to the New…
1 May 2006 - Romanticism and Environmentalism: The Tasmanian Novels of Marie Bjelke-Petersen
Examines romanticism and early environmentalism in Bjelke-Petersen’s almost forgotten novels about the Tasmanian landscape. Haynes argues that although in one sense Bjelke-Petersen’s “Romantic emphasis on…
1 May 2001 - Romance Australia: Love in Australian Literature of Exploration
Using three Australian novels of exploration as examples, I should like to suggest that the romance of exploration is invariably the romance of love but…
1 October 1987 - Gender, Genre, and Sybylla’s Performative Identity in Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career
Sybylla Melvyn, narrator of Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901), has troubled readers from the start. William Blackwood, editor, felt impelled to 'tone down' her…
1 October 1997