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  • Editor's note: I think of her as of some youthful experience beautiful unchanging through life to the threshold of death living for eternity.

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Country and Lives : Australian Biography and Its History Melanie Nolan , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cercles , no. 35 2015;
'There have been attempts to relate national characteristics “by reference to climate, habitat and soil and investing the collective subject with psychological attributes” for over two millennia. More recently historians of modern nationalism developed elaborate typologies often citing Martin Heidegger’s arguments that “the being of the human finds its essence in the being of place — the belonging together of being and topos” [MALPAS 2012 : 5-6]. And yet the challenge to the ontological connection between self and place, what Jeff Malpas describes as the “topological analysis of self and identity”, has a long philosophical tradition, too. This debate over experience, biography and nation has implications for historians who have raised empirical questions about the development of collective sensibilities over time among recent emigrant peoples, their physical peculiarities, behaviourial quirks and emergent national character. In this paper I consider the role that biography writing played in the construction of an Australian national identity geared to what Pierre Nora famously termed as the “roman national”, or the collective discourse on the history of the nation and its place in the world. I argue that Australian historians played a significant role in the history of biograpy writing and, related to it, the debate over collective Australian identity.' (Introduction)
Correspondence Percival Serle , 1950 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 11 no. 3 1950; (p. 176)
Mortal or Immortal? H. L. McLoskey , 1949 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 10 no. 3 1949; (p. 144-147)

— Review of In Mortal Bondage : The Strange Life of Rosa Praed Colin Roderick , 1948 single work criticism biography
Gilding the Rosa R. McC. , 1949 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 6 April vol. 70 no. 3608 1949; (p. 35)

— Review of In Mortal Bondage : The Strange Life of Rosa Praed Colin Roderick , 1948 single work criticism biography
Untitled Vance Palmer , 1949 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 8 no. 1 1949; (p. 62-63)

— Review of In Mortal Bondage : The Strange Life of Rosa Praed Colin Roderick , 1948 single work criticism biography
Untitled J. A. McCallum , 1949 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Quarterly , vol. 21 no. 2 1949; (p. 118-119)

— Review of In Mortal Bondage : The Strange Life of Rosa Praed Colin Roderick , 1948 single work criticism biography
Untitled Vance Palmer , 1949 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 8 no. 1 1949; (p. 62-63)

— Review of In Mortal Bondage : The Strange Life of Rosa Praed Colin Roderick , 1948 single work criticism biography
Gilding the Rosa R. McC. , 1949 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 6 April vol. 70 no. 3608 1949; (p. 35)

— Review of In Mortal Bondage : The Strange Life of Rosa Praed Colin Roderick , 1948 single work criticism biography
Mortal or Immortal? H. L. McLoskey , 1949 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 10 no. 3 1949; (p. 144-147)

— Review of In Mortal Bondage : The Strange Life of Rosa Praed Colin Roderick , 1948 single work criticism biography
Correspondence Percival Serle , 1950 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 11 no. 3 1950; (p. 176)
Country and Lives : Australian Biography and Its History Melanie Nolan , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cercles , no. 35 2015;
'There have been attempts to relate national characteristics “by reference to climate, habitat and soil and investing the collective subject with psychological attributes” for over two millennia. More recently historians of modern nationalism developed elaborate typologies often citing Martin Heidegger’s arguments that “the being of the human finds its essence in the being of place — the belonging together of being and topos” [MALPAS 2012 : 5-6]. And yet the challenge to the ontological connection between self and place, what Jeff Malpas describes as the “topological analysis of self and identity”, has a long philosophical tradition, too. This debate over experience, biography and nation has implications for historians who have raised empirical questions about the development of collective sensibilities over time among recent emigrant peoples, their physical peculiarities, behaviourial quirks and emergent national character. In this paper I consider the role that biography writing played in the construction of an Australian national identity geared to what Pierre Nora famously termed as the “roman national”, or the collective discourse on the history of the nation and its place in the world. I argue that Australian historians played a significant role in the history of biograpy writing and, related to it, the debate over collective Australian identity.' (Introduction)
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