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This is a collection of papers presented at the Gothenburg University Congress of Commonwealth Language and Literature, held in September 1982.
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Rutherford traces representations of the Australian landscape, from convict perceptions of Australia as Hell or Purgatory to explorers' declarations that Australia was a land 'unfit for poetry.' The examples build towards the conclusion that in every encounter, 'the continent always triumphs' (17).
Stow comments on the writing of William Charles Wentworth and the paintings of John Glover to suggest that they were, 'in their relation to the land, closer to the Aborigines than any of their vandalizing descendants' (24).
