Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Hamish Maxwell-Stewart i(A69222 works by)
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1 Rites of Passage : The Voyage to Convict Australia and the Creation of the Penal Labourer John Sheppard , Hamish Maxwell-Stewart , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 52 no. 4 2021; (p. 470-490) 'This article explores the ways in which convict labour was simultaneously regulated and co-opted on the long sea passage to the Australian penal colonies. It uses linked longitudinal data for over 39,000 male convicts transported between the years 1817 and 1853 to Van Diemen’s Land, to explore on-board recruitment of convicts by surgeons. A particular focus of interest is the way in which the organisation of the convict vessel shaped subsequent experience in the penal colonies. The article concludes by arguing that a transport ship was not one, but a series of institutions operating under one deck – part of a wider carceral archipelago that served to link metropolitan and colonial institutions.' (Publication abstract)
1 Post-Colonial Convict Portraits Hamish Maxwell-Stewart , 2006 single work essay criticism
— Appears in: The Sin Eaters : Post Colonial Convict Portraits from Van Diemen's Land 2006; (p. 20-24)
1 At Large with the Run-a-Ways Lucy Frost , Hamish Maxwell-Stewart , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives 2001; (p. 201-209)
1 Alexander and the Mother of Invention James Bradley , Hamish Maxwell-Stewart , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives 2001; (p. 190-198)
1 Dr Martin and the Forty Thieves Hamish Maxwell-Stewart , Paul Donnelly , Timothy Millett , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives 2001; (p. 177-189)
1 Seven Tales for a Man with Seven Sides Hamish Maxwell-Stewart , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives 2001; (p. 64-76) Maxwell-Stewart traces the life of convict author James Porter and the published versions of Porter's account of the mutiny on the Frederick. Maxwell-Stewart also examines the textual links betweens Porter's work and Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life.
1 In Search of the Invisible Man Hamish Maxwell-Stewart , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives 2001; (p. 49-63)
1 6 y separately published work icon Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives Lucy Frost (editor), Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (editor), Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 2001 Z974308 2001 anthology criticism correspondence

'This is the first book to apply new academic understandings of the convict transportation system to explore the lives of individual convicts. In searching for the convict voice, each chapter is a detective story in miniature, either an exercise in discovering the identity behind a particular account or a piecing together of a convict life from the scattered fragments of a tale. Many issues of great contemporary interest arise from these stories, including the multicultural nature of Australian colonial society and, above all, the importance of love and hope.' (Publication summary)
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