Vance Palmer
Articles
- Review of Vance Palmer by Harry Heseltine
Harry Heseltine's study of Vance Palmer has a generosity of spirit which is characteristic of his writing and which displays one of the chief virtues…
1 October 1971 - Review of Douglas Stewart by Clement Semmler and Vance and Nettie Palmer by Vivian Smith
These two so different books stand an old adage on its head. Easy writing said Byron, makes damned hard reading. Semmler makes a reader feel…
1 October 1975 - Vance and Nettie Palmer: The Literary Journalism
Vance and Nettie Palmer engaged in literary journalism throughout their careers. They knew that good reviewing in the weeklies and monthlies is—in Frank Kermode's words—'an…
1 October 1973 - Vance Palmer and the Unguarded Awareness
Vance Palmer's novels and short stories are not confined to any one area or social group. His settings range from outback cattle stations to middle-class…
1 May 1974 - The Palmer Abridgement of ‘Such is Life’
In April 1936 Jonathan Cape, the London publisher, informed Vance Palmer that he had been thinking of re-issuing Joseph Furphy's Such is Life. But…
1 October 1978 - Convict Legends, Australian Legends: Price Warung, the Palmers and Others, 1927-1970
Examines the social significance attributed to Price Warung by Vance and Nettie Palmer, Russel Ward and Ian Turner and others.
1 May 1980 - ‘This edition howls to heaven to be withdrawn’: The Palmer Abridgement of Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life.
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…
28 April 2020 - Towards a History of Literary Programming on ABC Radio
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…
29 October 2020 - Defining the Field of Irish-Australian Literature: Challenges and Conundrums
What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…
30 September 2021 - ‘Ourselves Alone’? Encounters Between the Irish Literary Revival and Australian Settler-Modernisms, ca. 1913–1919
This essay examines intellectual exchanges between early twentieth-century Australian literary nationalists and the Irish literary revival, with attention to the transnational and imperial differences in…
30 September 2021
Contributors
- D. R. Burns
- Frances Devlin-Glass
- Dorothy Green
- Bridget Griffen-Foley
- Cecil Hadgraft
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Roger Osborne
- Vivian Smith
- David Robert Walker
- Jimmy H. Yan