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Comprises a detailed history of The Lone Hand, together with a list of pseudonyms used in the publication and a variety of indexes to subjects, political and literary identities, fiction and verse published in the journal.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Negotiating the Colonial Australian Popular Fiction ArchiveKen Gelder,
2011single work criticism — Appears in:
JASAL,Special Issuevol.
11no.
12011;(p. 1-12)'There is an identifiable 'archive' of colonial Australian popular fiction consisting of
romance, adventure fiction, Gothic fiction, crime fiction, Lemurian fantasy and a
significant number of related subgenres (bushranger fiction, convict romance, Pacific
or 'South Sea' adventure, tropical romance, 'lost explorer' stories, and so on).
Looking at this archive soon reveals both its sheer size and range, and the fact that so
little of it is remembered today. Rachael Weaver, Ailie Smith and I have begun to
build a digital archive of colonial Australian popular fiction with the primary aim of
making this material available to an interested reading public, as well as to scholars
specialising in colonial Australian (and transnational) literary studies. At the time of
writing we are really only about 20% complete with around 500 authors represented
on the site, although many with only a fraction of their work uploaded and with only
the bare bones of a scholarly apparatus around them: a few short biographical notes, a
bibliography, and the texts themselves: first editions in most cases.' (Author's introduction, p. 1)
Negotiating the Colonial Australian Popular Fiction ArchiveKen Gelder,
2011single work criticism — Appears in:
JASAL,Special Issuevol.
11no.
12011;(p. 1-12)'There is an identifiable 'archive' of colonial Australian popular fiction consisting of
romance, adventure fiction, Gothic fiction, crime fiction, Lemurian fantasy and a
significant number of related subgenres (bushranger fiction, convict romance, Pacific
or 'South Sea' adventure, tropical romance, 'lost explorer' stories, and so on).
Looking at this archive soon reveals both its sheer size and range, and the fact that so
little of it is remembered today. Rachael Weaver, Ailie Smith and I have begun to
build a digital archive of colonial Australian popular fiction with the primary aim of
making this material available to an interested reading public, as well as to scholars
specialising in colonial Australian (and transnational) literary studies. At the time of
writing we are really only about 20% complete with around 500 authors represented
on the site, although many with only a fraction of their work uploaded and with only
the bare bones of a scholarly apparatus around them: a few short biographical notes, a
bibliography, and the texts themselves: first editions in most cases.' (Author's introduction, p. 1)
