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19th-Century Australian Travel Writing
Colonial Adventures and Experiences was published by ‘A University Man,’ however its authorship has been attributed to Oxford graduate George Carrington (1844-1903). It is chiefly a geographical and personal description of Carrington's experience of Queensland: as he notes, this narrative was not the result of a holiday experience or travel, but an account of daily working life. Carrington ironically discusses his various attempted colonial occupations—telegraph-pole hole digger, shepherd, special correspondent, photographer’s assistant, schoolmaster, candle-maker, bark-stripper. He also discusses his observations and interactions with Aboriginal people, colonial violence, and the indentured South Sea Islander labour force. On return to Britain, Carrington worked in journalism.
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, 1871 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.- To the Gulfi"To the gulf, to the gulf, to Australia's fag-end,", single work poetry (p. 203-204)
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Performing Manliness : 'Unmanly' Men on British Frontiers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , September vol. 35 no. 3 2011; (p. 355-372) 'In the mid-nineteenth century, the frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia provided a stage on which British men could enact or perform manliness. Encouraged by a range of cultural productions, thousands of British men went to these colonies to act out the courage, stoicism and perseverance demanded by the cult of manliness. In so doing they hoped to achieve their manly independence. From the exploits of these men sprang the frontier myths that are so popular in modern Australian and Canadian society. However, for many men, the frontier could be a troubling and unsettling place, and for them the pursuit of manly independence could be problematic. Their stories demonstrate that manliness could be a hollow ideal, dependent on and varying according to social and physical conditions. The Queensland and British Columbia frontiers were places where 'manliness' was an important ideal but a problematic practice.' [Author's abstract] -
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— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 14 September 1871; (p. 2)
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Performing Manliness : 'Unmanly' Men on British Frontiers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , September vol. 35 no. 3 2011; (p. 355-372) 'In the mid-nineteenth century, the frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia provided a stage on which British men could enact or perform manliness. Encouraged by a range of cultural productions, thousands of British men went to these colonies to act out the courage, stoicism and perseverance demanded by the cult of manliness. In so doing they hoped to achieve their manly independence. From the exploits of these men sprang the frontier myths that are so popular in modern Australian and Canadian society. However, for many men, the frontier could be a troubling and unsettling place, and for them the pursuit of manly independence could be problematic. Their stories demonstrate that manliness could be a hollow ideal, dependent on and varying according to social and physical conditions. The Queensland and British Columbia frontiers were places where 'manliness' was an important ideal but a problematic practice.' [Author's abstract]
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