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Jessica Anderson

Elaine Barry (1996)
Fabricating the Self: The Fictions of Jessica Anderson: Introduction

Elaine Barry (1984)
The Expatriate Vision of Jessica Anderson


Murray Bail

Lyn Jacobs (2001)
The ‘Good Oil’: Eucalypts and Murray Bail's ‘Eucalyptus’


James Bardon

Lyn Jacobs (1995)
Inscribing distance: narrative strategies in James Bardon's ‘Revolution by Night’


Barbara Baynton

Delys Bird (1986)
Writing Women/Reading Women: The Double-Voiced Discourse of Australian Women's Fiction

Lucy Frost (1983)
Barbara Baynton - An Affinity With Pain

Rosemary Moore (1993)
Envisaging Female Sexuality in Barbara Baynton's Human Toll

Susan Sheridan (1989)
Gender and Genre in Barbara Baynton's Human Toll

Shirley Walker (1989)
Barbara Baynton's Human Toll: A Modernist Text?

Elizabeth Webby (1984)
Barbara Baynton's Revisions to "Squeaker's Mate"


Louis Becke

[Unknown] (1894)
[Review of "By Reef and Palm"]

Bruce Bennett (1999)
The Trader's Eye: Louis Becke's Oceania

Michael Sturma (1997)
Reef and Palm: Sexual Politics and South Seas Tales


Rolf Boldrewood

Alan Brissenden (1974)
Robbery Under Arms: A Continuing Success

John Docker (1996)
Postmodernism, Cultural History, and the Feminist Legend of the Nineties - Robbery Under Arms, the Novel, the Play

Clive Hamer (1966)
Boldrewood Reassessed

Jerome H. Rosenberg (1973)
Narrative Perspective and Cultural History in Robbery Under Arms

Jerome H. Rosenberg (1978)
Cultural Symbolism in Robbery Under Arms

Graeme Turner (1989)
Ripping Yarns, Ideology, and Robbery Under Arms

R. B. Walker (1965)
The Historical Basis of Robbery Under Arms


Martin Boyd

Susan McKernan (1989)
A Life

Susan McKernan (1978)
Much Else in Boyd

John McLaren (1972)
Gentlefolk Errant – The Family Writings of Martin Boyd


Christopher Brennan

L. A. C. Dobrez (1978)
Christopher Brennan - The Wanderer

John Docker (1974)
The "Eternal Hermit": Christopher Brennan

Noel Macainsh (1992)
Christopher Brennan's Poetic

Noel Macainsh (1992)
Steps into the Forest: Christopher Brennan's fatal attraction

Annette Stewart (1970)
Christopher Brennan: The Disunity of "Poems 1913"

G. A. Wilkes (1952)
New Perspectives on Brennan's Poetry: I The Conceptual Framework

G. A. Wilkes (1952)
New Perspectives on Brennan's Poetry: II. The Unfolding of the Cycle

G. A. Wilkes (1952)
New Perspectives on Brennan's Poetry: III. The Forest of Night -- Analysis

G. A. Wilkes (1952)
New Perspectives on Brennan's Poetry: IV. The Forest of Night -- Synthesis

G. A. Wilkes (1952)
New Perspectives on Brennan's Poetry: V. Conclusion

Judith Wright (1965)
Christopher Brennan


Ada Cambridge

Margaret Bradstock (1989)
Unspoken Thoughts: A Reassessment of Ada Cambridge

Jill Roe (1972)
'The Scope of Women's Thought is Necessarily Less': The Case of Ada Cambridge


Rosa Cappiello

Sneja Gunew (1985)
Rosa Cappiello's ‘Oh Lucky Country’: Multicultural Reading Strategies


Brian Castro

Wenche Ommundsen (1994-5)
After Castro: Post Multiculturalism


Marcus Clarke

Lyndy Abraham (1991)
The Australian Crucible: Alchemy in Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life

Harold Boehm (1971)
His Natural Life and its Sources

John F. Burrows (1974)
His Natural Life and the Capacities of Melodrama

Avis McDonald (1986)
Rufus Dawes and Changing Narrative Perspectives in His Natural Life

Joan Poole (1970)
Maurice Frere's Wife

L. L. Robson (1963)
The Historical Basis of For the Term of His Natural Life

Catherine Runcie (1985)
Rufus Dawes - His Natural and His Spiritual Life

Elizabeth Webby (1996)
From Melodrama to Classic Comic: Adaptations of His Natural Life, 1886-1986

Michael Wilding (1974)
Marcus Clarke - his natural life

[Unknown] (1881)
The Australian Journal's 1881 Introduction to His Natural Life


Eleanor Dark

Helen Garner (1986)
Dazzling Writing: Introduction to the Virago Version of Eleanor Dark’s Lantana Lane

Carole Ferrier (1994)
Women of Letters and the Uses of Memory

Drusilla Modjeska (1985)
Introduction to The Little Company


Edward Dyson

[Unknown] (1898)
The Red Page: [Review of "Below and on Top"]


Louis Esson.

John McCallum (1986)
"Something with a cow in it": Louis Esson's imported nationalism

John McCallum (1989)
Irish Memories and Australian Hopes: William Butler Yeats and Louis Esson

Paul Makeham (1993)
Framing the landscape: Prichard's Pioneers and Esson's The Drovers

David Walker (1972)
A Bohemian's Progress: Louis Esson in Melbourne, 1904-1914


Beverley Farmer

Lyn Jacobs (1998)
The Third Eye: Beverley Farmer's ‘The House in the Light’


John Farrell.

Sheila Tearle and B. T. Dowd (1971)
John Farrell, Patriot and Journalist


Barron Field

John V Byrnes (1961)
Barron Field Recultivated

A. D. Cousins (1998)
Barron Field and the Translation of Romanticism to Colonial Australia

Brian Elliott (1943)
The First Austral Harmonist


Mary Fullerton

Joy Hooton (1993)
Mary Fullerton: Pioneering and Feminism

Sylvia Martin (1993)
Rethinking Passionate Friendships: The Writing of Mary Fullerton

Sylvia Martin (1998)
Becoming-Violet: Mary Fullerton's Poetry and Lesbian Desire


Joseph Furphy

John Barnes (1968)
The Structure of Joseph Furphy's "Such is Life"

John Barnes (1976)
"Such is Life" and the Observant Reader

Julian Croft (1983)
"Who is she?" The Image of Woman in the Novels of Joseph Furphy

Julian Croft (1986)
Between Hay and Booligal Tom Collins' Land and Joseph Furphy's Landscape

Julian Croft (1991)
Rigby's Romance

F. Devlin Glass (1974)
Joseph Furphy's Novels: Naked Capers in the Riverina

Susan Keogh (1989)
Land Landscape and Such is Life

Brian Kiernan (1962)
The Form of 'Such is Life'

Brian Kiernan (1963)
Society and Nature in "Such is Life"

Brian Kiernan (1964)
The Comic Vision of "Such is Life"

Susan Martin (1992)
Why do all these Women have Moustaches? Gender, Boundary and Frontier in "Such is Life" and "Monsieur Caloche"

Robert Darby (1987)
The Penguin and the Man-o'-War Hawk: Joseph Furphy's Critical Reputation, 1903-1947

A. G. Mitchell (1945)
Such is Life: The Title and the Structure of the Book

Chris Wallace-Crabbe (1961)
Joseph Furphy, Realist

Robert Zeller (1988)
Yarning About Yarning: The Buln-buln and the Brolga and the Rhetoric of Such is Life


Adam Lindsay Gordon

Michael Ackland (1993)
A Martial Code: Meditation and Action in the Verse of Adam Lindsay Gordon

Leonie Kramer (1963)
The Literary Reputation of Adam Lindsay Gordon


Aeneas Gunn

Katherine Ellinghaus (1997)
Racism in the Never Never: Disparate Readings of Jeannie Gunn


Lesbia Harford

Drusilla Modjeska (1985)
Introduction to The Poems of Lesbia Harford


Charles Harpur

Michael Ackland (1983)
Charles Harpur's "The Bush Fire" and "A Storm in the Mountains": Sublimity, Cognition and Faith

Michael Ackland (1987)
Poetic Ideal versus "the hard Real" in Charles Harpur's "The Tower of the Dream"

Michael Ackland (1984)
God's Sublime Order in Harpur's 'The Creek of the Four Graves'

Noel Macainsh (1978)
Charles Harpur's Midsummer Noon - A Structuralist Approach

Philip Mead (1990)
Charles Harpur's Disfiguring Origins: Allegory in Colonial Poetry

Vijay C. Mishra (1976)
The Literary Reputation of Charles Harpur: 1868-1900

Vijay C. Mishra (1977)
Early Literary Responses to Charles Harpur

Vijay C. Mishra (1978)
Charles Harpur's Reputation 1853-1858: The years of Controversy

Judith Wright (1965)
Charles Harpur


David Hennessey

Nancy Bonnin (1975)
Introduction to David Hennessey's "The Dis-Honourable"

Annie Bright (1895)
Mr. J. D. Hennessey, and His New Story, "The Dis-honourable"


Xavier Herbert

Harry P. Heseltine (1985)
Xavier Hervert

Frances De Groen and Peter Pierce (1992)
Xavier Herbert: Episodes from ‘Capricornia’, ‘Poor Fellow My Country’ and Other Fiction, Nonfiction and Letters: Introduction

Brian Kiernan (1970)
Xavier Herbert: ‘Capricornia’


Dorothy Hewett

Bruce Bennett (1995)
Dorothy Hewett's Garden and City


T. A. G. Hungerford

Peter Cowan (1989)
Introduction to Hungerford Short Fiction


Henry Kendall

Michael Ackland (1991)
"Behind the Veil": Metamorphosis and Alienation in the Poetry of Henry Kendall

Michael Ackland (1990)
Towards "The Shadow": Henry Kendall and the mid-century Crisis of Faith

Michael Ackland (1991)
Publishing Practice and Poetic Reputation: The Case of Henry Kendall

Robert J. Dingley (1986)
The Track to Ogygia: A Note on Henry Kendall

A. C. W. Mitchell (1969)
The Radiant Dream: Notes on Henry Kendall

Judith Wright (1965)
Henry Kendall


Kingsley

William H. Scheuerle (1965)
Romantic Attitudes in Geoffry Hamlyn

G. A. Wilkes (1972)
Kingsley's "Geoffry Hamlyn": A Study in Literary Survival


William Lane

Van Ikin (1983)
Political Persuasions: "The Workingman's Paradise"

Michael Wilding (1980)
Introduction to "The Workingman's Paradise"

Michael Wilding (1983)
William Lane's "The Workingman's Paradise": Pioneering Socialist Realism


Eve Langley

Lucy Frost (1993)
Body in the Vault: The Unpublished Novels of Eve Langley

Lucy Frost (1999)
Wilde Eve: Eve Langley’s Story: Introduction

Harry Heseltine (1986)
Eve Langley: Oscar Wilde in the Blue Mountains

Aorewa McLeod (1999)
Alternative Eves


Henry Lawson

Livio Dobrez (1976)
The Craftsmanship of Lawson Revisited

Edward Garnett (1922)
Henry Lawson and the Democracy

H. P. Heseltine (1972)
Saint Henry-Our Apostle of Mateship

Doug Jarvis (1983)
Lawson - the Bulletin and the Short Story

Brian Kiernan (1980)
Ways of Seeing: Henry Lawson's 'Going Blind'

Christopher Lee (1991)
What Colour are the Dead?

Christopher Lee (1958)
Man, Work and Country: The Production of Henry Lawson

Cecil Mann (1972)
The Lawson Legend

Brian Matthews (1968)
'The Drover's Wife' Writ Large: One Measure of Lawson's Achievement

Brian Matthews (1972)
"The Nurse and Tutor of Eccentric Minds": Some Developments in Lawson's Treatment of Madness

Brian Matthews (1976)
Henry Lawson's Fictional World

Kay Schaffer (1988)
Henry Lawson - The People's Poet

Chris Wallace-Crabbe (1972)
Lawson's Joe Wilson - A Skeleton Novel

Price Warung (1972)
While the Billy Boils

Michael Wilding (1997)
Henry Lawson's Socialist Vision


Louisa Lawson

Olive Lawson (1990)
About The Dawn

Christopher Lee (1996)
Feminism, Nationalism and Louisa Lawson's the Dawn

Sharyn Pearce (1997)
From Bush Battler to City Editor: Louisa Lawson and the Dawn

Susan Pfisterer-Smith (1996)
The Louisa Factor: The Historical Treatment of Louisa Lawson

Elaine Zinkhan (1988)
Louisa Albury Lawson: Feminist and Patriot


Caroline Leakey

Jenna Mead (1991)
(Re)producing a Text: Caroline Leakey's "The Broad Arrow"

Joan Poole (1966)
The Broad Arrow - a Reappraisal

John Scheckter
The Broad Arrow: Conventions, Convictions, and Convicts

Shirley Walker (1988)
'Wild and Wilful' Women: Caroline Leakey and the Broad Arrow


Lennie Lower

Peter Edwards (1992)
Cranky Jacks: Men Without Women in Steele Rudd's On Our Selection and Lennie Lower's Here's Luck

Keith Willey (1984)
The Sphinx at the Tavern Table


David Malouf

Martin Leer (1985)
At the Edge: Geography and the Imagination in the Work of David Malouf


Catherine Martin

Margaret Allen (1988)
Catherine Martin: An Australian Girl?

Elizabeth Webby (1988)
An Australian Girl: Introduction


Sally Morgan

Frances De Groen (1992)
Healing, Wholeness and Holiness in ‘My Place’


John Shaw Neilson

John Burrows (1972)
Shaw Neilson's Originality

Carmel Gaffney (1994)
The Green Singer: Neilson's Pastoral Poetry

Clifford Hanna (1972)
The Dual Nature of Shaw Neilson's Vision

Clifford Hanna (1978)
'The Orange Tree' and the Limitations of Poetry

Clifford Hanna (1984)
The Incongruousness of His Poetry and His Calling: The Effect of Biography on the Poetry of John Shaw Neilson

Dennis Robinson (1981)
Native Craft - Some Considerations on John Shaw Neilson

Annette Stewart (1971)
A New Light on 'The Orange Tree'?

Judith Wright (1975)
The wisdom of innocence: John Shaw Neilson


Banjo Paterson

Brian Elliott (1947)
Singing to the Cattle

Brian Elliott (1947)
Australian Paterson

Harry P. Heseltine (1964)
'Banjo' Paterson: A Poet Nearly Anonymous

Clement Semmler (1972)
A. B. Paterson

Chris Wallace-Crabbe (1978)
Popular Paterson


Brian Penton

Pat Buckridge (1990)
Gossip and History in the Novels of Brian Penton and Thomas Keneally


Peter Porter

Bruce Bennett (2000)
Interior landscapes in Peter Porter's Later Poetry


Rosa Praed

Beverley Kingston (1997)
Policy And Passion in Queensland: Rosa Praed and Politics

Michael Sharkey (1981)
Rosa Praed's Colonial Heroines


Katharine Susannah Prichard

Bruce Bennett (1976)
Beyond the Mask: Katharine Susannah Prichard

Delys Bird (1998)
Katharine Susannah Prichard: A Thoroughly Modern Woman

Carole Ferrier (1992)
Jean Devanny, Katharine Susannah Prichard, and the ‘Really Proletarian Novel’


Henry Handel Richardson

Michael Ackland (1997)
The Lesson of Barambogie: Richardson's Response to Schopenhauer in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

Michael Ackland (1999)
A School of Authority: Richardson's Personal Investment in "The Getting of Wisdom"

Veronica Brady (1977)
A Thick Crumbly Slice of Life: The Fortunes of Richard Mahony as Cultural Monument

Mandy Dyson (1996)
'Near the Heart of the Imperial Ethic': Imperialism, Patriarchy and the Boarding School in "The Getting of Wisdom"

Brian Kiernan (1968)
Romantic Conventions and "Maurice Guest"

Elizabeth Lawson (1985)
'A Rather Prosaic Australian Wife', or The Fortunes of Mary Mahony

Susan Lever (2000)
A Kind of Romance: Henry Handel Richardson's 'Maurice Guest'

Brian McFarlane (1977)
'The Getting of Wisdom': Not 'Merry' at All

Brian McFarlane (1977)
Power in Dark Places

Philip Mead (1995)
Death and Home-work: The Origins of Narrative in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

Catherine Pratt (1993)
'What Had She to Do with Angels?': Gender and Narrative in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

Catherine Pratt (1995)
Fictions of Development - Henry Handel Richardson's 'The Getting of Wisdom'

Fay Zwicky (1985)
Maurice the Obscure: The Provincial Expatriate in Search of a Voice


Steele Rudd

Eric D. Davis (1969)
Steele Rudd and His Gift of Laughter

Brian Elliott (1947)
A Word for Steele Rudd

Van Ikin (1976)
Steele Rudd as Failed Artist

Richard Fotheringham (1990)
Arthur Hoey Davis and Several 'Steele Rudds': Imagining the Pseudonymous Author

Peter Edwards (1992)
Cranky Jacks: Men Without Women in Steele Rudd's On Our Selection and Lennie Lower's Here's Luck


Henry Savery

Bruce Bennett (2000)
Ego, sight and insight in convict fiction by Henry Savery and John Boyle O'Reilly

Cecil H. Hadgraft (1962)
Biographical Introduction to Quintus Servinton

Avis McDonald (1988)
The Bitter Banishment of Quintus Servinton


Catherine Helen Spence

Helen Thomson (1988)
Love and Labour: Marriage and Work in the Novels of Catherine Helen Spence

Bruce Bennett (1991)
Contexts of possibility: George Eliot and Catherine Spence

Helen Thomson (1988)
Introduction to "Mr Hogarth's Will"

Helen Thomson (1983)
Catherine Helen Spence: Pragmatic Utopian

Robin B. Walker (1971)
Catherine Helen Spence, Unitarian Utopian


Louis Stone

C. A. Cranston (1989)
Sentimental Jonah's Heart of Stone

H. J. Oliver (1954)
Louis Stone


Randolph Stow

Martin Leer (1991)
Mal du Pays: Symbolic Geography in the Work of Randolph Stow


Tasma

Margaret Harris (1988)
The Writing of Tasma, the Work of Jessie Couvreur

Margaret Harris
Introduction Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill


Watkin Tench

Adrian Mitchell (1994)
Watkin Tench's Sentimental Enclosures: Original Relations From the First Settlement


Mary Vidal

Susan McKernan (1990)
Editor's Introduction Bengala


Price Warung

Barry Andrews (1979)
Price Warung, The Bulletin, and the 1890s

Barry Andrews (1979)
Dynamite, Barricades, Brimstone: Price Warung's Political Themes


William Charles Wentworth

Michael Ackland (1986)
Nature through Currency Lad Eyes: Wentworth, Harpur, Kendall and Australian Landscape Verse Tradition

John V. Byrnes (1963)
William Charles Wentworth and the Continuity of Australian Literature


Patrick White

Imtraud Petersson (1988)
New Light on ‘Voss’: The Significance of its Title


Ballads

Clement Semmler (1988)
Two Australian Balladists: W. H. Ogilvie & E. J. Brady


More Selected Articles

Roslyn Atkinson and Richard Fotheringham (2006)
Dramatic Copyright in Australia to 1912

Bruce Bennett (1979)
The Short Story

Veronica Brady (1987)
A Postmodernist City

Frances De Groen (2000)
Women and Selves

Maryanne Dever (1990)
Literary Biography

Paul Eggert (1999)
D.H. Lawrence's Reception in Australia: ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘The Boy in the Bush’.

Clifford Hanna (1977)
Aborigines, Lost and Found

J. J. Healy (1972)
The Treatment of the Aborigine in Early Australian Literature

J. J. Healy (1975)
Grant Watson and the Aborigine

J. J. Healy (1989)
Protest and Apology: Western Australia

Joy Hooton (1993)
Life-Lines in Stormy Seas: Some Recent Collections of Women's Diaries and Letters

Rick Hosking (1985)
The Usable Past: Australian War Fiction of the 1950s

Lyn Jacobs and Rick Hosking (2002)
Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia'

Brian Kiernan (1990)
Realism and Romance

Kerry Kilner (1998)
The Publishing of Drama in Australia 1946 to 1998

Susan Lever (1993)
The Cult of the Author

Susan Lever (1992)
An Isolation: Women Writers 1930-1957

T. Inglis Moore (1971)
The Cry of the Crow: Sombreness in Australian Literature

Wenche Ommundsen (2001)
Bastard Moon: Essays on Chinese-Australian Writing. Introduction.

Wenche Ommundsen (1998)
Not for the faint-hearted: Ouyang Yu, The Angry Chinese Poet

Wenche Ommundsen (2003)
Multicultural Writing in Australia

Nancy Phelan (1985)
The Power of a Well-told Story

Nancy Phelan (1988)
Read the Book, Not the Blurb

Peter Pierce (1980)
The Australian Literature of the Viet Nam War

Susan Sheridan (1988)
Women Writers

Cheryl Taylor (2005)
Writers of Tropical Queensland

Helen Tiffin (1984)
Asia and the Contemporary Australian Novel

Michael Wilding (1970)
Writer and Reader