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'First published in 1934, this novel tells the story of a British man who migrates to Australia in 1842 and is transformed by his colonial experiences.'
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Prequel to Inheritors : A Novel
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Dedication: For Jaques Kahane
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Epigraph: A perilous crossing, a perilous journey, a perilous looking back, a perilous trembling and hesitating (Zarathustra)
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The Landtakers was the first novel of a projected but unfinished trilogy continued by Inheritors. In an early typescript version the novel was titled 'The Fiery School'; the title The Landtakers was suggested by Jacques Kahane, to whom the novel is dedicated, and comes from the Old Norse register of settlements in Iceland (Pat Buckridge, introduction to 1991 Imprint Classics edition).
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'The True Hero Stuff' Blak Folk in Early Queensland Fiction
2022
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essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 76 2022; 'FROM THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY novels of Rosa Praed well into the twentieth century and beyond, Aboriginal people have been scrutinised and written about by outsiders in terms both simplistic and racist. Such fiction, especially in the era when the novel was about as powerful as Netflix is today, initially served an economic and social as well as a literary purpose.' (Introduction) -
Films Hollywood Almost Made about Australia
2019
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essay
— Appears in: FilmInk , 14 February 2019; -
The Pioneer Legend and Its Legacy : In Memory of John Hirst
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , June vol. 103 no. 1 2017; (p. 7-25)'In a famous study, The Australian Legend, first published in 1958, Russel Ward argued that the bush legend was the central foundation story that explained the evolution of Australian character and nationalism. Ward's version of the legend explained how from convict times onwards itinerant bush workers had created and adhered to an ethos that encompassed mateship, anti-authoritarianism (including hostility to Britain and its empire), egalitarianism, and adaptability. Although the bush legend allegedly originated with and was nurtured by a bush proletariat, Ward proposed that this regional ethos became a national creed at the turn of the 20th century, transmitted from rural to urban Australia through conduits that included the trade union movement, periodicals like The Bulletin, and the work of writers like Lawson and Paterson. (Publication abstract)
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The Harp in the South : Reading Ireland in Australia
2011
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criticism
— Appears in: The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume V 2011; (p. 440-461)'The Australian branch of the modern Irish diaspora has several apparently distinctive features, when compared with the British, American and Canadian branches. As explained by the historian Oliver MacDonagh, these include, firstly, its large size in relation to the total population – over 30% in the eastern mainland states, and sustained at that level down to the First World War and beyond; secondly, its unusually uniform distribution around the country, geographically, socially and even occupationally, with relatively strong Irish presences in all states, and in all classes and occupations (except the higher financial professions), but notably the law, politics, journalism and teaching; and thirdly their unique position within the diaspora,as a founding people, arriving at the beginning of European settlement (mainly as convicts and soldiers), and thereby staking a claim, and an interest, in the shape and destiny of the nation as a whole.' (Author's introduction)
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Constructing the Metropolitan Homeland : The Literatures of the White Settler Societies of New Zealand and Australia
2009
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criticism
— Appears in: Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas 2009; (p. 125-145)
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A Reader's Notebook
1934
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review
— Appears in: All About Books , 14 August vol. 6 no. 8 1934; (p. 153-154)
— Review of Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch 1934 single work novel ; Cobbers : A Personal Record of a Journey from Essex, in England, to Australia, Tasmania and Some of the Reefs and Islands in the Coral Sea, Made in the Years 1930, 1931 and 1932 1934 single work autobiography ; Eight Plays by Australians 1934 anthology drama ; Upsurge : A Novel 1934 single work novel ; The Silver Dog 1934 single work novel ; The Yellow Joss : And Other Tales 1934 selected work short story ; Ambition : An Autobiographical Novel 1934 single work novel -
Twelve Australian Books That Should Be in Every Australian Home
1937
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review
— Appears in: All About Books , 10 November vol. 9 no. 11 1937; (p. 172)
— Review of The Singing Gold 1927 single work novel ; Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch 1934 single work novel ; Confessions of a Beachcomber 1908 extract autobiography ; The Sentimental Bloke : The Play 1914 single work poetry ; Songs of a Campaign 1917 selected work poetry ; Heart of Spring 1919 selected work poetry ; Satyrs and Sunlight : Being the Collected Poetry of Hugh McCrae 1928 selected work poetry ; His Natural Life 1870-1872 single work novel ; The Pearl and the Octopus, and Other Exercises in Prose and Verse 1911 selected work short story poetry ; Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins 1897 single work novel ; Flynn of the Inland 1932 single work biography ; The Fortunes of Richard Mahony 1917 single work novel ; Man-Shy 1934 extract novel ; We of the Never-Never 1908 single work novel ; Speaking Personally 1930 selected work essay ; Best Australian One-Act Plays 1937 anthology drama ; The Wide Brown Land : A New Anthology of Australian Verse 1934 anthology poetry ; The Magic Pudding Second Slice : Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff 1971 extract children's fiction ; Separate Lives 1931 selected work short story ; Modern Australian Literature, 1900-1923 1924 single work criticism -
A Nation in the Making
1934
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review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 26 July 1934; (p. 20)
— Review of Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch 1934 single work novel -
Books Received
1934
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review
— Appears in: The Central Queensland Herald , 5 July 1934; (p. 12)
— Review of Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch 1934 single work novel -
New Australian Novelists
1934
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review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 July no. 268 1934; (p. 20)
— Review of Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch 1934 single work novel -
From the Bush : A new Land
1942
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biography
— Appears in: Salt , 25 May vol. 3 no. 8 1942; (p. 9-11) -
Can You Better This Book List?
1945
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column
— Appears in: Book News , August no. [1] 1945; (p. 3) -
Best Sellers and A.B.A. Recommendations
1934
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column
— Appears in: All About Books , 13 September vol. 6 no. 9 1934; (p. 182-183) -
Australian Literature Society [Meeting Report]
1934
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— Appears in: All About Books , 12 October vol. 6 no. 10 1934; (p. 204) -
The Mayne Scandal and the Penton Novels
1998
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criticism
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , October no. 41 1998; (p. 5-6)
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