Cities
Articles
- The Literary Destruction of Canberra: Utopia, Apocalypse and the National Capital
The article examines the contradictory responses to the national capital in the Australian imagination: planned along utopian lines, Canberra has been seen as a failed…
1 May 2009 - ‘Does all Melbourne smell like this?’: The Colonial Metropolis in Marvellous Melbourne
A few years after George Augustus Sala had coined the term ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ in 1885, a play with that title was written and performed with…
1 May 2003 - Contemporary Poetry and the Sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray and Samuel Wagon Watson
Amongst contemporary Australian poets there are those whose work can be classed as overtly religious, whose poetry adheres to older, transcendental models of signification, to…
1 October 2007 - ‘No light, no land or sea’: Urban alienation in Elizabeth Harrower’s Down in the City.
Elizabeth Harrower’s first novel, Down in the City (1957), introduces concerns that define her oeuvre, offering a typically adroit depiction of destructive domestic relations and…
16 November 2016 - The Tank Stream Press: Urban Modernity and Cultural Life in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney
In Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934), Christina Stead evokes the city’s history in her naming of the Tank Stream Press, the novel’s central location…
7 December 2016 - The Fortunate Flâneuse
The nineteenth century was a period of extraordinary change, and the built structure of cities became a representation of progress. As a consequence the city…
1 November 2015