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The Red Snake single work   short story  
  • Author:agent Francis Adams http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/adams-francis
Issue Details: First known date: 1888... 1888 The Red Snake
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Boomerang (Christmas Issue) 24 December 1888 Z652722 1888 periodical issue 1888 pg. 17-18
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Life Francis Adams , London : Chapman and Hall , 1892 Z470106 1892 selected work short story London : Chapman and Hall , 1892 pg. 3-24
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Queensland Review vol. 15 no. 1 2008 Z1529775 2008 periodical issue 2008 pg. 111-129
    Note: Edited by Belinda McKay

Works about this Work

Proleptic Modernism? A Reconsideration of the Literature of Colonial Queensland Belinda McKay , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , vol. 23 no. 2 2016; (p. 116-132)
'Susan Stanford Friedman argues that modernisms are multiple, polycentric and recurrent. This article takes up her invitation to focus on the circulation of people and ideas that connected modernisms from different parts of the planet by reconsidering two moments in the literature of colonial Queensland as instances of proleptic modernism. The publications of Policy and Passion by Rosa Praed in 1881 in London, and of the ‘The Red Snake’ by Francis Adams in 1888 in Brisbane encapsulate early manifestations of the cultural unease and destabilisation that drove the development of modernism/s as the expressive domain of modernity/ies. Striking thematic and stylistic parallels with the work of canonical modernists — HD in the case of Praed, and Conrad in the case of Adams — suggest not only that modernism began to manifest itself in Anglophone culture much earlier than is generally conceded, but also that the cognitive dissonance generated by the colonial experience was centrally implicated in its development.' (Publication abstract)
Narrating Colonial Queensland : Francis Adams, Frank Jardine and 'The Red Snake' Belinda McKay , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , vol. 15 no. 1 2008; (p. 97-109)
Narrating Colonial Queensland : Francis Adams, Frank Jardine and 'The Red Snake' Belinda McKay , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , vol. 15 no. 1 2008; (p. 97-109)
Proleptic Modernism? A Reconsideration of the Literature of Colonial Queensland Belinda McKay , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , vol. 23 no. 2 2016; (p. 116-132)
'Susan Stanford Friedman argues that modernisms are multiple, polycentric and recurrent. This article takes up her invitation to focus on the circulation of people and ideas that connected modernisms from different parts of the planet by reconsidering two moments in the literature of colonial Queensland as instances of proleptic modernism. The publications of Policy and Passion by Rosa Praed in 1881 in London, and of the ‘The Red Snake’ by Francis Adams in 1888 in Brisbane encapsulate early manifestations of the cultural unease and destabilisation that drove the development of modernism/s as the expressive domain of modernity/ies. Striking thematic and stylistic parallels with the work of canonical modernists — HD in the case of Praed, and Conrad in the case of Adams — suggest not only that modernism began to manifest itself in Anglophone culture much earlier than is generally conceded, but also that the cognitive dissonance generated by the colonial experience was centrally implicated in its development.' (Publication abstract)
Last amended 16 Sep 2008 14:57:04
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Subjects:
  • Brisbane, Queensland,
  • Great Barrier Reef, Australian seas,
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