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For discussion of the various versions of this poem and the history of its compilation see Frank the Poet by Meredith and Whalen (1979). Several manuscript versions exist in the Mitchell library - ML MSS 7266, A 649, A 807 and C 967 (digitised copy: of this available)
Notes
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Author's note: Composed at Stroud A.A. Co. Establishment Station, New South Wales. Composed and written October 23rd day, Anno 1839.
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Epigraph: Nor can the foremost of the sons of men/ Escape my ribald and licentious pen (Swift).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Antipodean Rewritings of Great Expectations : Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (1997) and Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip (2007)
2012
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criticism
— Appears in: The Shadow of the Precursor 2012; (p. 220-235) 'Counter-discourse theory urges readings of postcolonial fictions that are renarrativisations of canonical texts of empire in terms of their strategies of resistance. Recent novels by Peter Carey and Lloyd Jones amply acknowledge their debt to their precursor, Charles Dickens Great Expectations, but this chapter argues that the contestatory imperial relationship is overlaid with the equally compelling theme of postcolonial home and belonging. Carey exploits the oppositional "writing back" paradigm; Jones, by contrast, makes veneration of the Dickensian text central to his plot. Both, however, can also be described as diasporic novels in their preoccupation with the colony as home, as their colonial protagonists, after a fraught encounter with their Victorian heritage in the metropolitan centre of London, find their destiny/destination in the "return." Although this diasporic reading reiterates the familiar binaries of metropolitan centre and colonial periphery, it repositions the filial relationship as one of postcolonial habitation and settlement.' (220) -
A Sense of Industrial Place -- The Literature of Newcastle, New South Wales, 1797-1997
1999
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A Folk Inferno
1990
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Blocks and Tackles : Articles and Essays 1982 to 1990 1990; (p. 137-150) The Paperbark Tree : Selected Prose 1992; (p. 317-328) A Working Forest : Selected Prose 1997; (p. 360-371) -
The Narrow-Columned Middle Ground : 19th Century Australian Poetry
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Blocks and Tackles : Articles and Essays 1982 to 1990 1990; (p. 1-32) The Paperbark Tree : Selected Prose 1992; (p. 222-250) A Working Forest : Selected Prose 1997; (p. 282-308) -
Frank the Poet : A Postscript
1987
single work
biography
— Appears in: Overland , June no. 107 1987; (p. 62-66)
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Antipodean Rewritings of Great Expectations : Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (1997) and Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip (2007)
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Shadow of the Precursor 2012; (p. 220-235) 'Counter-discourse theory urges readings of postcolonial fictions that are renarrativisations of canonical texts of empire in terms of their strategies of resistance. Recent novels by Peter Carey and Lloyd Jones amply acknowledge their debt to their precursor, Charles Dickens Great Expectations, but this chapter argues that the contestatory imperial relationship is overlaid with the equally compelling theme of postcolonial home and belonging. Carey exploits the oppositional "writing back" paradigm; Jones, by contrast, makes veneration of the Dickensian text central to his plot. Both, however, can also be described as diasporic novels in their preoccupation with the colony as home, as their colonial protagonists, after a fraught encounter with their Victorian heritage in the metropolitan centre of London, find their destiny/destination in the "return." Although this diasporic reading reiterates the familiar binaries of metropolitan centre and colonial periphery, it repositions the filial relationship as one of postcolonial habitation and settlement.' (220) -
The Narrow-Columned Middle Ground : 19th Century Australian Poetry
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Blocks and Tackles : Articles and Essays 1982 to 1990 1990; (p. 1-32) The Paperbark Tree : Selected Prose 1992; (p. 222-250) A Working Forest : Selected Prose 1997; (p. 282-308) -
A Folk Inferno
1990
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Blocks and Tackles : Articles and Essays 1982 to 1990 1990; (p. 137-150) The Paperbark Tree : Selected Prose 1992; (p. 317-328) A Working Forest : Selected Prose 1997; (p. 360-371) -
Frank the Poet : A Postscript
1987
single work
biography
— Appears in: Overland , June no. 107 1987; (p. 62-66) -
A Sense of Industrial Place -- The Literature of Newcastle, New South Wales, 1797-1997
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 13 no. 1 1999; (p. 15-20)
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Subjects:
- New South Wales,
Settings:
- 1830s
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