Joan Holloway Joan Holloway i(A122291 works by)
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
1 y separately published work icon William Legrand: A Study Joan Holloway , St Lucia : 2011 Z1843796 2011 single work thesis 'This thesis is a scholarly biography of the nineteenth-century Hobart bookseller, William Legrand (ca.1818 -1902). Currently an iconic figure, once a well-known amateur scientist, antiquarian, and local ―character,‖ Legrand produced the first book on Tasmanian land shells and secured scarce colonial materials for important collections of Australiana. This study argues that Legrand's past and continuing Tasmanian presence has greater significance than currently recognised. My archival research substantially increases existing knowledge about him. Applying theoretical knowledge in detailed analysis of existing and fresh material, I probe the cultural significance of Legrand's previously untraced links with historical figures, places, events, and intellectual movements. His many-faceted career offers valuable insights to developments in early Australian science and notions of national identity.'
Source: Author's abstract
1 Curiosity, Collections, and William Legrand : Aspects of a Tasmanian Career, 1855 to 1902 Joan Holloway , 2008 single work biography
— Appears in: Tasmanian Historical Studies , vol. 13 no. 2008; (p. 83-110) 'William Legrand is remembered as the 'musty old book-dealer' who occupied, one after the other, two dim and cluttered secondhand shops in central Hobart during the last half of the nineteenth century. Yet appearances can be deceiving; and tracing Legrand's obscure colonial career as secondhand bookseller, antiquarian, and amateur conchologist provides insights into the pervasive influence of imperial vision within intellectual endeavour and cultural activities in late nineteenth-century colonial life. Imperialism, as it is understood here, extended beyond economic, political, and military parameters: it was, as John Mackenzie has described, 'a habit of mind, a dominant idea in the era of European world supremacy which had widespread intellectual, cultural and technical expressions'. It produced, among other things, a preoccupation with acquisition, collecting, and the central display of artefacts, possessions and other goods. The shells, books, and other items Legrand collected had strong, but different connections with both imperial inquisitiveness and imperial acquisitiveness; and during his Hobart years, he played a small, but important role in what I suggest are significant, yet rarely considered, culture industries of imperialism.'
X