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'This article explores the significance of the campfire to Australian settler culture in the nineteenth century. Considering the paradox that campfires could be both comforting and evoke terror, the piece considers how they provided a link between the northern and southern hemispheres. Drawing on a range of primary materials — many of which have been forgotten — the article addresses the thin boundary between warmth and tragedy that came to be associated with campfires. Furthermore, it examines connections between fire and the emergence of an Australian settler identity, along with the bush dweller’s role in changing the face of the wilderness and its fire ecology.'
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https://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1506/
‘Raising high its thousand forked tongues’ : Campfires, Bushfires, and Portable Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Australia
19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Subjects:
- Bush Fancies and Campfire Yarns 1898 selected work poetry short story
- An Austral Christmas 1889 single work short story
- By the Campfire 1878 single work poetry
- Three Diggers : A Tale of the Australian 'Fifties 1889 single work
- The Burning Forest : A Sketch of Australian Bush Life 1853 single work short story
- The Bush Fire 1851 single work poetry
- The Spirit of the Bush Fire 1910 single work children's fiction
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