Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Imagining Romanticism : Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms
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Contents

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Imagining Romanticism : Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms : Introduction, Deirdre Coleman , Peter Otto , single work criticism (p. ix-xxi)
A Case of Romantic Disinheritance, Andrew Taylor , single work criticism (p. 185-201)
Landscape at the Edge of a Promise : Australian Romanticism and John Shaw Neilson, Dennis Haskell , single work criticism biography (p. 203-215)
Charles Harpur's Disfiguring Origins : Allegory in Colonial Poetry, Philip Mead , single work criticism
Mead examines the poetry of Charles Harpur in terms of the poet's attempt to move from colonial to national modes of expression. Mead proceeds by exploring the allegorical nature of some poems as signs of Harpur's attempt to exhibit the original Australian voice to which he aspired. But, allegoresis, Mead suggests, opposes the poet's romanticising of origins because of the gap between the signs of expression and the experience of the poet. What is found when one seeks "origins" in Harpur's poetry is not a "unitary or easily traceable historical origin" but the "divisions and anxieties" of Harpur's allegory.
(p. 217-240)
The Instructive Imagination : English with Tears, Ian Reid , single work criticism (p. 241-264)
Mastering Romanticism : The Struggle for Vocation in the Texts of James McAuley, Lyn McCredden , single work criticism (p. 265-273)
Postmodern Romantic : The Imaginary in David Malouf's 'An Imaginary Life', Andrew Taylor , single work criticism (p. 275-290)
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