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'Under the name of Leonard Louvain, [The Lost Explorer] presumed to tell of the supposed finding of Leichhardt in the centre of Australia. The description was based upon Charles Sturt's Expedition into Central Australia; but the story itself was largely made up of adventures with the blacks'.
Source: Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935, v.2.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Britishness and Australian Popular Fiction : From the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 46-66) 'The analysis offered here is [...], a panoptic perspective of the tangled skeins of literary imagination and imitation, gender and genre requirements, editorial control, market considerations and the sheer economics of the international book trade that knotted Australian popular literature into the cultural and economic fabric of the British empire.' (47) -
Fabulating the Australian Desert : Australia's Lost Race Romances, 1890-1908
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Philament , April no. 3 2004; - y Mobilising Fictions or, Romancing the Australian Desert, 1890-1908 St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2009 Z1238252 2003 single work criticism 'This paper looks at Australia's "lost race romances", published between 1890 and 1908, so-called because they described the discovery of an unknown race in the middle of the Australian desert...' (Author's abstract)
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Lost and Found Cities and People : In Australia
2001
single work
review
bibliography
biography
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 96-100)
— Review of The Lost Explorer : An Australian Story 1890 single work novel ; The Savage Queen : A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land 1891 single work novel ; The Golden Idol : A Tale of Adventures in Australia and New Zealand 1891 single work novel ; The Golden Lake, or, The Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia 1890 single work novel ; The Valley Council; Or, Leaves from the Journal of Thomas Bateman of Canbelego Station, N.S.W. 1891 single work novel ; The Secret of the Australian Desert 1890 single work children's fiction ; The Fallen Race 1892 single work novel ; Mostyn Stayne 1897 single work novel ; Marooned on Australia : Being the Narration by Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits in Terra Australis Incognita about the Year 1630 1896 single work children's fiction ; Adventure of the Broad Arrow : An Australian Romance. 1897 single work novel ; An Australian Bush Track 1896 single work novel ; The Treasure Cave of the Blue Mountains 1898 single work children's fiction ; The Last Lemurian : A Westralian Romance 1896 single work novel ; Eureka 1899 single work novel -
Ludwig Leichhardt : Australia's Missing Penis
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 1 1994; (p. 97-106)
— Appears in: The Body in the Library 1998; (p. 237-247)
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What London Thinks
1891
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australasian Critic , 1 January vol. 1 no. 4 1891; (p. 83-84)
— Review of A Bride from the Bush 1890 single work novel ; The Lost Explorer : An Australian Story 1890 single work novel ; Our Pleasant Vices 1890 single work novel ; Under the Gum Tree : Australian Bush Stories 1890 anthology short story -
Lost and Found Cities and People : In Australia
2001
single work
review
bibliography
biography
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 96-100)
— Review of The Lost Explorer : An Australian Story 1890 single work novel ; The Savage Queen : A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land 1891 single work novel ; The Golden Idol : A Tale of Adventures in Australia and New Zealand 1891 single work novel ; The Golden Lake, or, The Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia 1890 single work novel ; The Valley Council; Or, Leaves from the Journal of Thomas Bateman of Canbelego Station, N.S.W. 1891 single work novel ; The Secret of the Australian Desert 1890 single work children's fiction ; The Fallen Race 1892 single work novel ; Mostyn Stayne 1897 single work novel ; Marooned on Australia : Being the Narration by Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits in Terra Australis Incognita about the Year 1630 1896 single work children's fiction ; Adventure of the Broad Arrow : An Australian Romance. 1897 single work novel ; An Australian Bush Track 1896 single work novel ; The Treasure Cave of the Blue Mountains 1898 single work children's fiction ; The Last Lemurian : A Westralian Romance 1896 single work novel ; Eureka 1899 single work novel -
Home-Made Haggardism
1891
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australasian Critic , 1 January vol. 1 no. 4 1891; (p. 78)
— Review of The Lost Explorer : An Australian Story 1890 single work novel -
Fabulating the Australian Desert : Australia's Lost Race Romances, 1890-1908
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Philament , April no. 3 2004; - y Mobilising Fictions or, Romancing the Australian Desert, 1890-1908 St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2009 Z1238252 2003 single work criticism 'This paper looks at Australia's "lost race romances", published between 1890 and 1908, so-called because they described the discovery of an unknown race in the middle of the Australian desert...' (Author's abstract)
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Britishness and Australian Popular Fiction : From the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 46-66) 'The analysis offered here is [...], a panoptic perspective of the tangled skeins of literary imagination and imitation, gender and genre requirements, editorial control, market considerations and the sheer economics of the international book trade that knotted Australian popular literature into the cultural and economic fabric of the British empire.' (47) -
Ludwig Leichhardt : Australia's Missing Penis
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 1 1994; (p. 97-106)
— Appears in: The Body in the Library 1998; (p. 237-247) -
The Lemurian Nineties
1978
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 8 no. 3 1978; (p. 307-316)
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