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Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 Melbourne Riots : And How Harry Holdfast and His Friends Emancipated the Workers
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'A novel mainly devoted to showing how socialist principles can have a successful outcome in the conduct of village settlements.'

Source: "Melbourne Gossip." Rev. of Melbourne Riots : And How Harry Holdfast and His Friends Emancipated the Workers, by David Andrade. The Bendigo Independent 18 Feb 1893.

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Utopia and Utopian Studies in Australia Andrew Milner , Verity Burgmann , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Utopian Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2016; (p. 200-209) 'There are no independently Australian translations of Thomas More’s Utopia. Nor is there any equivalent in Australia to the Society for Utopian Studies in North America or the Utopian Studies Society in Europe. Nor are there any extant formal research groups or undergraduate or graduate courses in utopian studies. There are, however, distinctively Australian traditions of utopian writing, both eutopian and dystopian, and also a limited field of Australian utopian studies, essentially the work of individual scholars. This article attempts a brief description of both.' (Publication summary)
Futures without Financial Crises : Utopian Literature in the 1890s and 1930s Verity Burgmann , David Milner , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 23 no. 6 2009; (p. 839 - 853) 'Australian utopian fiction of the 1890s and 1930s reflects the traumatic impact of the economic crises of these decades and expresses desire to avoid the insecurities of capitalism. There are significant differences, however, in the imaginative reach of the utopias devised in the 1890s and those formulated in the 1930s. In Australia in the 1890s, the possibilities for progress and perfection were varied. Unionism, socialist legislation, the formation of ideal communities based on socialist or anarchist principles, militant forms of protest, attempts to inaugurate direct rather than mere representative democracy were some of the various strategies pursued in this decade that promised a better world. The methods depicted in the utopian writings of the 1890s for achieving ideal societies are as diverse as the real politically radical currents of the time. By the 1930s, the starkly singular conception of emancipation offered by the Soviet model dominates the imagination of those who wrote of better futures. The utopian literature of the 1930s is thus diminished by its fascination with an alleged model of perfection in the real world. The differences between the utopian literatures of two decades undergoing similar upheavals confirms Darko Suvin's observation that the parameters of utopian imagination are produced by the particular radical milieux around those who dare to dream of alternatives.' (Author's abstract)
Visions of the Nineties Nan Bowman Albinski , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , May no. 20 1987; (p. 12-22)
New Arcadias : Co-Operative Movements of the Nineties Nan Bowman Albinski , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Margin , no. 15 1985; (p. 19-24)
Lunatic Literature 1892 single work review
— Appears in: Table Talk , 2 December 1892; (p. 6)
— Review of Melbourne Riots : And How Harry Holdfast and His Friends Emancipated the Workers David A. Andrade , 1892 single work novella
Lunatic Literature 1892 single work review
— Appears in: Table Talk , 2 December 1892; (p. 6)
— Review of Melbourne Riots : And How Harry Holdfast and His Friends Emancipated the Workers David A. Andrade , 1892 single work novella
New Arcadias : Co-Operative Movements of the Nineties Nan Bowman Albinski , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Margin , no. 15 1985; (p. 19-24)
Futures without Financial Crises : Utopian Literature in the 1890s and 1930s Verity Burgmann , David Milner , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 23 no. 6 2009; (p. 839 - 853) 'Australian utopian fiction of the 1890s and 1930s reflects the traumatic impact of the economic crises of these decades and expresses desire to avoid the insecurities of capitalism. There are significant differences, however, in the imaginative reach of the utopias devised in the 1890s and those formulated in the 1930s. In Australia in the 1890s, the possibilities for progress and perfection were varied. Unionism, socialist legislation, the formation of ideal communities based on socialist or anarchist principles, militant forms of protest, attempts to inaugurate direct rather than mere representative democracy were some of the various strategies pursued in this decade that promised a better world. The methods depicted in the utopian writings of the 1890s for achieving ideal societies are as diverse as the real politically radical currents of the time. By the 1930s, the starkly singular conception of emancipation offered by the Soviet model dominates the imagination of those who wrote of better futures. The utopian literature of the 1930s is thus diminished by its fascination with an alleged model of perfection in the real world. The differences between the utopian literatures of two decades undergoing similar upheavals confirms Darko Suvin's observation that the parameters of utopian imagination are produced by the particular radical milieux around those who dare to dream of alternatives.' (Author's abstract)
Visions of the Nineties Nan Bowman Albinski , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , May no. 20 1987; (p. 12-22)
Utopia and Utopian Studies in Australia Andrew Milner , Verity Burgmann , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Utopian Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2016; (p. 200-209) 'There are no independently Australian translations of Thomas More’s Utopia. Nor is there any equivalent in Australia to the Society for Utopian Studies in North America or the Utopian Studies Society in Europe. Nor are there any extant formal research groups or undergraduate or graduate courses in utopian studies. There are, however, distinctively Australian traditions of utopian writing, both eutopian and dystopian, and also a limited field of Australian utopian studies, essentially the work of individual scholars. This article attempts a brief description of both.' (Publication summary)
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