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Alternative title: Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Culture
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... vol. 7 no. 2 June 2013 of Memoirs of the Queensland Museum est. 1998 The Leichhardt Papers : Reflections on His Life and Legacy
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'Six scholarly papers on Leichhardt’s cultural legacy, his social observations, Leichhardt as a geologist, botanist and ecologist, the significance of his discoveries for the understanding of extinct Australian megafauna, and his contribution to Australian Aboriginal linguistics and ethnography.' (Source: http://www.harbeck.com.au/Ludwig-Leichhardt.pdf )

Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.

    Also includes:

    Leichhardt's Colonial Panorama : Social Observation in His Australian Diaries by G. Ginn

    Leichhardt as a Geologist by T. Darragh

    For the Sake of Science : Ludwig Leichhardt as Botanist and Ecologist by R.J. Fensham

    Ludwig Leichhardt and the Significance of the Extinct Australian Megafauna by R.J. Fensham and G.J. Price

    Leichhardt : His Contribution to Australian Aboriginal Linguistics and Ethnography 1843-44 by A. Jeffries

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Young Leichhardt's Diaries in the Context of His Australian Cultural Legacy, Angus Nicholls , single work criticism

'This paper examines Ludwig Leichhardt's early Australian diaries, spanning from April 1842 until July 1844, in relation to his cultural legacy. Although Leichhardt's standing as an explorer was initially established following the success of his journey to Port Essington in 1844-46, his reputation in Australia was later damaged by controversies arising from rival accounts of both this first journey and particularly of the second expedition of 1846-47. These controversies, at times informed by anti-Prussian and later by anti-German prejudices, have dominated Leichhardt's reception in Australia, while at the same time diverting attention from his German cultural background and the ways in which it may have influenced his writings on Australia. Leichhardt's education took place within the contexts of the late German Enlightenment, of philosophical idealism and of romanticism, and key elements of those interrelated movements can be detected in his early Australian diaries. It is, moreover, clear that Leichhardt saw his letters and diaries as contribution not only to the natural sciences, but also to the genre of romantic travel literature, exemplified by his idol Alexander von Humboldt, among others. This in turn raises the possibility that Leichhardt's own romantic modes of expression may have influenced his most culturally resonant alter-ego in the canon of Australian literature, the eponymous protagonist of Patrick White's novel Voss (1957). ' (541)

(p. 541-560)

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