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A lost-race romance story. Typically, in this popular late-nineteenth century genre, male English adventurers travel beyond the edges of the known world and have their masculine and racial identities tested, but ultimately affirmed, in encounters with a lost race, remnants of an ancient civilisation often led by a female chief.
Source: Carter, David. How people have imagined Queensland. Queensland Historical Atlas, 2010.
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Works about this Work
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Portals to a New World : H.P. Lovecraft Ventures to the Great Sandy Desert
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 16-22) -
Britishness and Australian Popular Fiction : From the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 46-66) 'The analysis offered here is [...], a panoptic perspective of the tangled skeins of literary imagination and imitation, gender and genre requirements, editorial control, market considerations and the sheer economics of the international book trade that knotted Australian popular literature into the cultural and economic fabric of the British empire.' (47) -
Lemuria and Australian Dreams of an Inland Sea
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 32-47) Cathcart reads a range of 'Lemurian novels,' examining their 'uncomplicated optimism about the future of White Australia, their trust that the key to that future lay beneath the earth, in the Great Australian Basin, and their attempts to grapple with the deadly impact of colonisation on the Aborigines who resisted' (44). -
Haunted Economies : J. D. Hennessey's An Australian Bush Track and the 'Native' Gift
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Settler Romances and the Australian Girl 2004; (p. 51-73, notes 146-149) -
Fabulating the Australian Desert : Australia's Lost Race Romances, 1890-1908
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Philament , April no. 3 2004;
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Lost and Found Cities and People : In Australia
2001
single work
review
bibliography
biography
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 96-100)
— Review of The Lost Explorer : An Australian Story 1890 single work novel ; The Savage Queen : A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land 1891 single work novel ; The Golden Idol : A Tale of Adventures in Australia and New Zealand 1891 single work novel ; The Golden Lake, or, The Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia 1890 single work novel ; The Valley Council; Or, Leaves from the Journal of Thomas Bateman of Canbelego Station, N.S.W. 1891 single work novel ; The Secret of the Australian Desert 1890 single work children's fiction ; The Fallen Race 1892 single work novel ; Mostyn Stayne 1897 single work novel ; Marooned on Australia : Being the Narration by Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits in Terra Australis Incognita about the Year 1630 1896 single work children's fiction ; Adventure of the Broad Arrow : An Australian Romance. 1897 single work novel ; An Australian Bush Track 1896 single work novel ; The Treasure Cave of the Blue Mountains 1898 single work children's fiction ; The Last Lemurian : A Westralian Romance 1896 single work novel ; Eureka 1899 single work novel -
Fabulating the Australian Desert : Australia's Lost Race Romances, 1890-1908
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Philament , April no. 3 2004; -
Haunted Economies : J. D. Hennessey's An Australian Bush Track and the 'Native' Gift
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Settler Romances and the Australian Girl 2004; (p. 51-73, notes 146-149) - y Mobilising Fictions or, Romancing the Australian Desert, 1890-1908 St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2009 Z1238252 2003 single work criticism 'This paper looks at Australia's "lost race romances", published between 1890 and 1908, so-called because they described the discovery of an unknown race in the middle of the Australian desert...' (Author's abstract)
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Lemuria and Australian Dreams of an Inland Sea
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 32-47) Cathcart reads a range of 'Lemurian novels,' examining their 'uncomplicated optimism about the future of White Australia, their trust that the key to that future lay beneath the earth, in the Great Australian Basin, and their attempts to grapple with the deadly impact of colonisation on the Aborigines who resisted' (44). -
Britishness and Australian Popular Fiction : From the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 46-66) 'The analysis offered here is [...], a panoptic perspective of the tangled skeins of literary imagination and imitation, gender and genre requirements, editorial control, market considerations and the sheer economics of the international book trade that knotted Australian popular literature into the cultural and economic fabric of the British empire.' (47)
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Settings:
- Queensland,
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
- 1890s
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