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Settler Colonial Fictions : Beyond Nationalism and Universalism
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel 2023; (p. 54-68)'Paradoxically, Australian nationalist accounts have tended to slight the earliest Australian literature by white settlers from the nineteenth century. This chapter surveys the literary history of this period, examining writers such as Oliné Keese, Ada Cambridge, Henry Kingsley, Rosa Praed, and Catherine Helen Spence. Drawing connections between these writers and the transnational Anglophone literary world centering on Great Britain and the United States, this chapter takes a comparative perspective that at once acknowledges the peripheral standing of these Australian texts and argues for their relevance to the history of the novel in English.' (Publication abstract)
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Literary Gossip
1882
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser , 15 April vol. 33 no. 1136 1882; (p. 573-574) '...the consistent and successful attempt of too many English reviewers to twaddle Australian authors out of the English market, and at the same time to thust upon us English notions of Australian life about as accurate and artistic as a Fiji Islander's notions of the celestial city... There is a tale to be told of Australian life, and it will be only told aright by one who has drunk deeply of the the Australian spirit...'
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Literary Gossip
1882
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser , 15 April vol. 33 no. 1136 1882; (p. 573-574) '...the consistent and successful attempt of too many English reviewers to twaddle Australian authors out of the English market, and at the same time to thust upon us English notions of Australian life about as accurate and artistic as a Fiji Islander's notions of the celestial city... There is a tale to be told of Australian life, and it will be only told aright by one who has drunk deeply of the the Australian spirit...' -
Settler Colonial Fictions : Beyond Nationalism and Universalism
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel 2023; (p. 54-68)'Paradoxically, Australian nationalist accounts have tended to slight the earliest Australian literature by white settlers from the nineteenth century. This chapter surveys the literary history of this period, examining writers such as Oliné Keese, Ada Cambridge, Henry Kingsley, Rosa Praed, and Catherine Helen Spence. Drawing connections between these writers and the transnational Anglophone literary world centering on Great Britain and the United States, this chapter takes a comparative perspective that at once acknowledges the peripheral standing of these Australian texts and argues for their relevance to the history of the novel in English.' (Publication abstract)
