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AbstractHistoryArchive Description
A collection of short stories that recount experiences of the convict system in Australia.
Notes
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The 1975 publication with the same title is a different selection of Price Warung stories.
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Dedication: To the memory of Marcus Clarke
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Epigraph: The Transportation System .... is a monument such as, I suppose, was never before erected by any people, Christian or Pagan, of combined absurdity and wickedness.' - Archbishop Whateley (in the House of Lords, 1840).
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Bulletin
, 1892 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned His Breakfast, single work short story (p. 1-11)
- How "Lifer" Dale Attended the Guest-Dinner, single work short story (p. 12-24)
- Egerton of Ours, single work short story (p. 25-36)
- Absalom Day's Promotion, single work short story (p. 37-54)
- The Convict's Sacrament, single work short story (p. 55-69)
- Under the Whip, or, The Parson's Lost Soul, single work short story (p. 70-85)
- The Commandant's Picnic Party, single work short story (p. 86-108)
- The Consecration of the Commission, single work short story (p. 109-127)
- The Special Commission, sequence short story (p. 109-175)
- Spinning the Hemp, single work short story (p. 128-149)
- Knotting the Rope, single work short story (p. 150-175)
- Marooned on the Grummet, single work short story (p. 176-193)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Aboriginal Gothic
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Darkness Subverted : Aboriginal Gothic in Black Australian Literature and Film 2010; (p. 11-29) In this essay, Althans ‘treats the Gothic as being a mode which continues to endow genres with a certain set of menacing stock elements and unstable characteristics of which the interrogation of boundaries, binaries, and identity are particularly useful in an Aboriginal Australian context’. (p.11-12)
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Aboriginal Gothic
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Darkness Subverted : Aboriginal Gothic in Black Australian Literature and Film 2010; (p. 11-29) In this essay, Althans ‘treats the Gothic as being a mode which continues to endow genres with a certain set of menacing stock elements and unstable characteristics of which the interrogation of boundaries, binaries, and identity are particularly useful in an Aboriginal Australian context’. (p.11-12)
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