'Paradoxically, Australian nationalist accounts have tended to slight the earliest Australian literature by white settlers from the nineteenth century. This chapter surveys the literary history of this period, examining writers such as Oliné Keese, Ada Cambridge, Henry Kingsley, Rosa Praed, and Catherine Helen Spence. Drawing connections between these writers and the transnational Anglophone literary world centering on Great Britain and the United States, this chapter takes a comparative perspective that at once acknowledges the peripheral standing of these Australian texts and argues for their relevance to the history of the novel in English.' (Publication abstract)
First Tuesday Book Club [September 2012]
Sydney
:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
,
2012
15254405
2012
film/TV
Host Jennifer Byrne joins regular panelists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, and guests Margaret Wertheim and David Vann to discuss and review the international book HHhH and Australian novel, Middlemarch by George Elliot.
First Tuesday Book Club [September 2012]
Sydney
:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
,
2012
15254405
2012
film/TV
Host Jennifer Byrne joins regular panelists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, and guests Margaret Wertheim and David Vann to discuss and review the international book HHhH and Australian novel, Middlemarch by George Elliot.
'Paradoxically, Australian nationalist accounts have tended to slight the earliest Australian literature by white settlers from the nineteenth century. This chapter surveys the literary history of this period, examining writers such as Oliné Keese, Ada Cambridge, Henry Kingsley, Rosa Praed, and Catherine Helen Spence. Drawing connections between these writers and the transnational Anglophone literary world centering on Great Britain and the United States, this chapter takes a comparative perspective that at once acknowledges the peripheral standing of these Australian texts and argues for their relevance to the history of the novel in English.' (Publication abstract)
