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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... December 2018 of Overland [Online] est. 2011 Overland [Online]
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* Contents derived from the , 2018 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Subjects of the Imagination : on Dropping the Settler Pen, Jeanine Leane , single work essay

'In 1857, English journalist and author Frank Fowler visited the colony of NSW and wrote with much excitement that ‘our fictionists have fallen upon the soil of Australia, like so many industrious diggers and though merely scratching and fossicking the surface have turned up much precious and malleable stuff.’ Fowler’s brief nineteenth-century summation of the Australian literary landscape still resonates today.' (Introduction)

Remembering Roberta Perkins, Cheyne Anderson , single work obituary
In the Grip of Melbourne : Revisiting Monkey Grip, Emily Potter , Kirsten Seale , single work essay

'Text’s new edition of Helen Garner’s 1977 novel Monkey Grip is an opportunity to revisit the book’s influence on Melbourne. In addition to being widely considered a classic of Australian fiction, Monkey Grip is frequently referred to as an iconic ‘Melbourne’ novel. Certainly, it is a novel absolutely grounded in and shaped by place. Monkey Grip exhibits an intimacy with place that is built through local knowledge and the regular, routine movement through the spaces of one’s life. The city is much more than a backdrop to action. For Nora, the narrator and protagonist, it is the locus of the social encounter and emotional intensity on which the book’s narrative depends...'  (Introduction)

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