Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Home Was Where the Hearth Is : Fire, Destruction, and Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Settler Narratives
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'Moore examines W. S. Calvert's wood engravings "The Morning After the Fire" and "The Track of the Bushfire", which appeared in the Illustrated Australian News and Musical Times. She also explores how the old associations between fire and domesticity were challenged and re-fashioned by life in the bush. Finally, she demonstrates how fire offered writers from settler communities a means of considering their relations to and cultural distance from the land they had left behind, while also compelling them to re-evaluate narrative conventions that placed the hearth at the center of the house, and of the story.' (Publication summary)

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    y separately published work icon Antipodes vol. 29 no. 1 June 2015 8842657 2015 periodical issue 2015 pg. 29-42
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