AustLit
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Issue Details:
First known date:
2014...
vol.
29
no.
3
October
2014
of
Australian Literary Studies
est. 1963
Australian Literary Studies
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* Contents derived from the 2014 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Reading Communities of Collecting : Sales Catalogues, Sociability, and Ephemerality, 1676-1862, single work criticism (p. 15-27)
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'A Reading People? : Global Knowledge Networks and Two Australian Societies of the 1820s,
single work
criticism
(p. 74-86)
'This essay is primarily concerned with two Australian societies of the 1820s: The Philosophical Society of Australasia, 1821-1822, and the Useful Book Society, around 1828-1831.' (75)
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Forgotten Books and Local Readers : Popular Fiction in the Library at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,
single work
criticism
(p. 87-100)'This essay uses the records of local library borrowers' choices in the early twentieth century to approach a body of fiction that has been given many names: popular fiction, forgotten books, 'the great unread', victims of 'the slaughterhouse of literature'....' (87)
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Rescuing Reading : Strategies for Arresting the Decline of Reading in Western Australian Newspapers between the Wars,
single work
criticism
(p. 101-115)'The purpose of this essay is to describe and interpret a cluster of three readerly 'entertainments' conducted in two Perth newspapers, The Western Mail and the est Australian, in the years 1929-1930, and to place them in contexts that enable us to understand them as calculated and connected interventions in a wider campaign of resistance to what was perceived as a decline in recreational reading in this period.' (Introduction, 101)
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Review : Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930–1970 : The Getting of Bookselling Wisdom,
single work
review
— Review of Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930–1970 : The Getting of Bookselling Wisdom 2012 single work criticism ; (p. 130-132) -
Review : The Colonial Journals,
single work
review
— Review of The Colonial Journals : And the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture 2014 multi chapter work criticism ; (p. 132-136)
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