Literary history
Articles
- Looking for the History in Literary History: Review of The Oxford Literary History of Australia
Reviewing The Oxford Literary History of Australia is a tricky, discomfiting affair. What do we expect from such histories? Should we expect the latest theoretical…
1 October 1999 - Reading English
Busy trying to understand how literary narratives might be read, and how to teach the reading of literature, academics have spent little time writing about…
1 June 2013 - Editing ALS: A Memoir
Australian Literary Studies, launched by A.D. Hope in Hobart in August 1963, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2013. This is an unusual span for…
1 June 2013 - ‘Our Literary Connexion’: Rosa Praed and George Bentley
This essay examines Rosa Praed’s communication ‘through letters, agreements, publisher’s ledgers, and memoirs of her dealings with one of her early publishers, George Bentley of…
1 October 2012