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'Donald Cameron, gifted and flawed, produced a feast of fiction in colonial newspapers, much of it now online via Trove. His achievements (and failures) shed new light on Australian colonial literary production' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Elizabeth Morrison, A Man of No Mean Talent : Donald Cameron and Australian Colonial Newspaper FictionRoger Osborne,
2024single work review — Appears in:
JASAL,4 Novembervol.
23no.
22024; — Review of
A Man of No Mean Talent : Donald Cameron and Australian Colonial Newspaper FictionElizabeth Morrison,
2023single work biography 'In The Reading Nation of the Romantic Period, William St Clair described most literary history as “a parade of great names described from a commentator’s box set high above the marching column,” or “the open parliament with all the members participating and listening.” Instead of following these models based on arbitrary selections from modern points-of-view, St Clair urges researchers to investigate the literature that most people actually read. While Elizabeth Morrison might not have directly followed this advice, her book on the life and work of Donald Cameron draws attention to the pages actually read by many Australians, providing her reader with a relatively unknown and unique view of colonial literary production, one that demonstrates how much more there is to know when we look beyond the “parade of great names.”' (Introduction)
Elizabeth Morrison, A Man of No Mean Talent : Donald Cameron and Australian Colonial Newspaper FictionRoger Osborne,
2024single work review — Appears in:
JASAL,4 Novembervol.
23no.
22024; — Review of
A Man of No Mean Talent : Donald Cameron and Australian Colonial Newspaper FictionElizabeth Morrison,
2023single work biography 'In The Reading Nation of the Romantic Period, William St Clair described most literary history as “a parade of great names described from a commentator’s box set high above the marching column,” or “the open parliament with all the members participating and listening.” Instead of following these models based on arbitrary selections from modern points-of-view, St Clair urges researchers to investigate the literature that most people actually read. While Elizabeth Morrison might not have directly followed this advice, her book on the life and work of Donald Cameron draws attention to the pages actually read by many Australians, providing her reader with a relatively unknown and unique view of colonial literary production, one that demonstrates how much more there is to know when we look beyond the “parade of great names.”' (Introduction)
