Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Post Modernism, Cultural History, and the Feminist Legend of the Nineties: 'Robbery Under Arms', the Novel, the Play
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Docker challenges the feminist argument that the literature of the 1890s was dominated by male themes that idealised the bush and mateship. Argues that Robbery Under Arms neither marginalizes women nor presents male camaraderie as desirable. Concludes by stressing the need to look wider than traditional primary sources to conduct research on Australian culture.

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America, the Forbidden Fruit : Anti-American Sentiment in Robbery under Arms James Dahlstrom , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 25 no. 2 2011; (p. 145-150)
James Dahlstrom looks for anti-American sentiment in Rolf Bolderwood's novel, Robbery under Arm. This is achieved by examining the novel 'in its historical context and by placing the author in this historical context and by treating the novel as colonial narrative.' (p. 145)
America, the Forbidden Fruit : Anti-American Sentiment in Robbery under Arms James Dahlstrom , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 25 no. 2 2011; (p. 145-150)
James Dahlstrom looks for anti-American sentiment in Rolf Bolderwood's novel, Robbery under Arm. This is achieved by examining the novel 'in its historical context and by placing the author in this historical context and by treating the novel as colonial narrative.' (p. 145)
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