Periodicals
Articles
- Review of On Native Grounds, Meanjin Quarterly Index 1940-65, and The Vital Decade
The editor of Meanjin Quarterly, Mr C. B. Christesen had (as he says in the Preface) a difficult task in compiling an anthology from…
1 May 1970 - Australian Letters and Postwar Modernity
Australian Letters, 'a quarterly review of writing and criticism', was launched in Adelaide in 1957. Max Harris, co-owner of the Mary Martin Bookshop, poet…
1 October 2008 - Review of Aspects of Australian Cultur, ed. Joost Dalder and Michele Fryar, and Australia, Special Editor L. A. C. Dobrez
In a previous review article in ALS (Vol. 10,No. l,May 1981) 'On Our Selection', Adrian Mitchell surveyed a crop of recent special issues of (mainly…
1 October 1983 - Review of John Lang: Australia's Larrikin Writer by Victor Crittenden, and Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press 1800- 1900 ed. Judith Johnston and Monica Anderson
In the first book of the John Lang Project, John Lang: Australia's Larrikin Writer. Barrister, Novelist, Journalist and Gentleman, author Victor Crittenden claims that…
1 May 2007 - No Tyranny of Distance: The Reception of Publications on Australia in The Athenaeum 1828-1850
Periodicals of the 19th century comprehensively informed English readers about journeys to Australia as well as about travels and expeditions on the continent. How extensive…
1 October 1996 - The Literary News, 1882-1883
In the last two decades of the nineteenth century there is growing evidence of attempts to encourage the spread of literary culture and Australian writing…
1 May 1976 - Wartime Reading: Romantic Era Military Periodicals and the Edinburgh Review
"Drawing on Jon Klancher's seminal study of the ways in which periodicals shaped British reading audiences in the Romantic era, this essay considers the role…
1 October 2014 - ‘To favourably impress the Oriental mind with western knowledge’: Xiaohai yuebao (The Child’s Paper, 1875-1915) and International Print Culture
"The first section of the essay situates Xiaohai yuebao in the context of late nineteenth-century missionary publishing and delineates the relationship between the periodical and…
1 October 2014 - Rescuing Reading: Strategies for Arresting the Decline of Reading in Western Australian Newspapers between the Wars
The purpose of this essay is to describe and interpret a cluster of three readerly 'entertainments' conducted in two Perth newspapers, the Western Mail and…
1 October 2014 - Review of The Colonial Journals and the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture, Rev. ed., by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
The work under review deals with one of the many facets surrounding and supporting writers and their works: periodicals with literary content produced in the…
1 October 2014 - Aboriginal Mobilities and Colonial Serial Fiction
This article combines Indigenous mobility studies with recent work on seriality and periodical form to examine how the structural necessities of serialised periodical fiction reinforced…
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- Shih-Wen Sue Chen
- Sarah Galletly
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Toni Johnson-Woods
- Leonie Kramer
- Annegret Maack
- Elizabeth Morrison
- Neil Ramsey
- Susan Sheridan