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Notes
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Special joint issue with Australian Cultural History 20.
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
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The Left Book Club in Australia : Achieving Reform and Change through Reading and its Attempted Suppression,
single work
criticism
Arnold gives a brief history of the Left Book Club in Australia and its attempted suppression. The article examines the club's success in achieving its core aims, "socialism and education", analysing its impact on Australian politics and culture and the extent to which it "changed the way people purchased and read books".
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Untitled,
single work
review
— Review of Last Drinks 2000 single work novel ; (p. 146-148) -
[Review] The Pea Pickers [and] Ride on Stranger,
single work
review
— Review of The Pea Pickers 1942 single work novel ; Ride on Stranger 1943 single work novel ; (p. 148-150) -
[Review Essay] Rolf Boldrewood : A Life,
single work
review
— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life 2000 single work criticism biography ;'If Paul de Serville's latest book were entitled Thomas Browne: A Life, who would read it? As it is, Browne's pen name 'Rolf Boldrewood' will attract few enough readers, I suspect, despite Peter Carey's recent success with the True History of the Kelly Gang. 'Boldrewood', not Browne, is the name with currency, though the public is as likely to know his classic account of bushranging, Robbery under Arms, from one of its many film versions as from reading the original. De Serville reveals further reasons for sticking to the nom de plume: Browne wrote as 'Templar' and 'An Australian', and with the possibility of illegitimacy hanging over him, added an 'e' to his name to raise himself above the ruck and to associate himself with more illustrious forebears. In literature, and to a lesser extent in life, Browne was given to improving romantically on his family line and experiences.' (Introduction)
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[Review] What Falls Away,
single work
review
— Review of What Falls Away 2001 single work novel ; (p. 168-169) -
[Review] Songs of the Suitcase,
single work
review
— Review of Songs of the Suitcase 1998 selected work novel short story prose biography ; (p. 169-170) -
Review of Mother Lode : Stories of Home Life and Home Death,
single work
review
— Review of Mother Lode : Stories of Home Life and Home Death 2001 selected work short story ; (p. 170-172) -
Review of Ghost Nation : Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture, 1901-1939,
single work
review
— Review of Ghost Nation : Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture, 1901-1939 2001 single work criticism ; (p. 173-174) -
[Review] The Captive White Woman of Gippsland: In Pursuit of the Legend,
single work
review
— Review of The Captive White Woman of Gippsland: In Pursuit of the Legend 2001 single work criticism ; (p. 182-183) -
[Review] The Company,
single work
review
— Review of The Company : The Story of a Murderer 2000 single work novel ; (p. 176178)