Joseph Furphy

What appealed to generations of readers in Furphy can trouble a late twentieth-century reader: its call to nationhood, to one (white and assimilationist) nation; its…

Lebedewa provides a bibliography of Joseph Furphy criticism since 1955.

Most readers of Furphy are familiar with his terse characterization of the full-sized novel he had written (Such is Life in its first form)…

Rodriguez provides evidence that the character of Nosey Alf in Such is Life is based on the historical figure of Johanna Jorgensen, who lived for…

Places My Brilliant Career in the wider context of late nineteenth century Australian writing and literary cultures, examining its position in the Australian literary canon…

Indyk attempts to show how “the recognition of complexity and diversity is at the same time an assertion of the principles of social equality”. Because…

Darby examines the early reception of Such is Life to demonstrate that, contrary to previous opinions, those first readers were aware of the hidden plots…

There are now ten edited collections in print in the Portable Australian Authors series (general editor, Laurie Hergenhan), of which seven are gatherings of colonial…

Lists and discusses Furphy's contributions to various periodicals including the Bulletin.

‘I want to propose that the incertitudes of Furphy’s magnum opus provide the observant queer reader with an arousing focus on the late-nineteenth-century making of…

It is strange to think of 1944, with its shortages and paper rationing, as an annus mirabilis for a publisher, but in that year Angus…

Every new book on Shakespeare, said a critic (Stoll?), falls into two parts: the first part is always good—that is where the author demolishes previous…

Lawson and Furphy are quite heterogeneous writers, yoked together by nationalists. They are worth discussing as a pair because they are so different and complementary…

The first half of this essay uses the trials to examine English discourses about Australian identity in the late nineteenth century, and it considers how…

When the abridged English edition of Joseph Furphy's Such is Life appeared on the shelves of Australian booksellers in the middle of 1937, many of…

After the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) was established in 1932, music occupied just over half of airtime, with talk making up the balance. With the…

Locating Australian Literary Memory begins with a typically pithy quotation from Miles Franklin about its subject matter: ‘Such monuments alas, too often are a saving…

What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…