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1 Copyright Law, Readers and Authors in Colonial Australia Sara Ailwood , Maree Sainsbury , 2014 single work
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014; 'This article explores the impact of imperial and domestic copyright law on Australian readers, authors and literary culture throughout the nineteenth century. It investigates the effects of the Copyright Act 1842 on colonial readers, in terms of the cost and availability of books and the circulation of ideas, and uncovers Australian responses to the Foreign Reprints Act 1847. It further explores the creation of domestic colonial copyright legislation and its links to an increase in the number of novels published as books in the 1870s and 1880s. Drawing on recent empirical research exploring relationships between book publishing and the growth of a national literature, it argues that copyright law and policy are important considerations in fostering such histories of Australian literary culture.' (Publication abstract)
1 The Laws of God and Men : Eliza Davies' 'Story of an Earnest Life' Sara Ailwood , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , December vol. 8 no. 4 2011; (p. 433-444) This article explores Eliza Davies' 1881 autobiography The Story of an Earnest Life through the lens of nineteenth-century spiritual autobiographic genres. It analyses Davies' use of the spiritual autobiography to create a subjectivity beyond the culturally-sanctioned role of wife and mother, a sense of self that is closely linked to her legal identity. In South Australia in the early 1840s, Davies found herself trapped in a position of legal non-subject through her marriage to a violent, alcoholic husband. Her autobiography charts not only her spiritual journey as Christ's missionary, but also he recreation as a legal subject through the divorce proceedings she brought against her husband in the 1860s. Through her interrogation of legal identity, Davies registers a dissenting voice in contemporary religious and imperial discourses regarding women's social and legal position.
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