The colonial journals : and the emergence of Australian literary culture / Ken Gelder & Rachael Weaver.
Publication details: Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2014.Description: 438 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 26 cmISBN:- 9781742584973
- A820.80994 23
- PR9619
- PN5517.L6 G45 2014
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 820.809 GEL | Available | 058178 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [434]-435)
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Beginnings and Endings: The Precarious Life of a Colonial Journal -- pt. 2 The Making of Australian Literature -- pt. 3 Colonial Authors, Canons and Taste -- pt. 4 Stories and Poetry from the Colonial Journals -- pt. 5 Colonial Journals and their Artists -- pt. 6 The Journal Covers -- pt. 7 Colonial Types: Emergent and Residual -- pt. 8 Colonial Types: The Australian Girl -- pt. 9 Race and the Frontier -- pt. 10 Colonial Modernity.
Colonial Australia produced a vast number of journals and magazines that helped to create an exuberant literary landscape. They were filled with lively contributions by many of the key writers and provocateurs of the day - and of the future. Important Australian writers such as Marcus Clarke, Rolf Boldrewood, Ethel Turner and Katharine Susannah Prichard published for the first time in these journals. In The Colonial Journals, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver present a fascinating selection of material: a miscellany of content that enabled the 'free play of intellect' to thrive and, matched with wry visual design, made attractive artifacts that demonstrate the role this period played in the growth of an Australian literary culture.
