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Author : Henry Savery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Hermit in Van Diemen's Land written by Henry Savery and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Savery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Hermit in Van Diemen's Land written by Henry Savery and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Savery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789150049930
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (499 download)
Download or read book The Hermit in Van Diemen's Land written by Henry Savery and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : R. R.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand; their history and present state, with their prospects in regard to emigration, impartially examined. [Signed: R. R.] written by R. R. and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Savery
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Quintus Servinton written by Henry Savery and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Savery was Australia's first novelist and a convict transported to Port Arthur, Tasmania. It is widely acknowledged that his writing is more significant for its historical value than for its literary merit. Excerpt: The events of Savery's life and the autobiographical novel he has left us to give some insight into the man. He was, so far as can be learned, not striking in appearance. All we gain from the prison record is that he was five feet eight inches in height and that he had brown hair and hazel eyes. But he was not commonplace in temperament...The picture Savery gives in Quintus Servinton is then mostly true in analysis of what he was, less true in description and narration of what he did.
Author : Elizabeth Webby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521658430
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (584 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature written by Elizabeth Webby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable reference for the study of Australian literature.
Author : James Ferguson
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642277184
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book John Alexander Ferguson written by James Ferguson and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Alexander Ferguson was a leading barrister and esteemed judge of the New South Wales Industrial Commission for much of his successful career, and actively contributed to the history of his country. A highly industrious man, Ferguson worked tirelessly to act for the public good. His defining contribution to the history of Australia however, was his magisterial, seven volume BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIA (1941-1969) which describes, with some limited exceptions, every printed document concerning Australia from 1784 to 1901. Many of these can be found in the Ferguson Collection which amasses some of Australia's most significant, rare and unique colonial records as well as pictures and maps that track the birth of Australia.
Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394753666
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)
Download or read book The Fatal Shore written by Robert Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-02-12 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew.
Author : Professor Max Howell
Publisher : Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1925112578
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Convicts and the Arts written by Professor Max Howell and published by Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a considerable number of books on the art of the convicts, so Convicts & Art has been covered reasonably well but art is only once facet of the arts that has been examined to any extent. This book concerns itself with Convicts & the Arts. This book, then, endeavors to look at the convicts’ contribution to the arts, and demonstrates without doubt that the convicts made a significantly broader contribution to the culture of Australia than previously thought. There is a common misconception that all convicts were immediately institutionalised in a cell, and convict culture was solely a prison culture. It needs reinforcing that when the First Fleet arrived there were no prisons in Australia, no cells where they could put the convicts. The early governors and principal authorities quite logically endeavoured to use whatever skills the convicts had. So artists, generally forgers, were placed with those who were interested in recording a visual history of this new land. Among the convicts were bricklayers, house painters, jewelers, silversmiths, goldsmiths and so on, and some of them made significant contributions to the emerging society. Some of these contributions will be developed herein. This work endeavors to examine the convicts’ contribution to the arts in Australia, in areas like the writing of novels, poetry, autobiographies, sculpture, theatre, music, architecture, jewelry, the press, decorative arts and pottery.
Author : Alison Alexander
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459603907
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Tasmania's Convicts written by Alison Alexander and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land' it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies. Following the lives of dozens of convicts and their families' she uncovers stories of success' failure' and everything in between. While some suffered harsh conditions' most served their time and were freed' becoming ordinary and peaceful citizens. Yet over the decades' a terrible stigma became associated with the convicts' and they and the whole colony went to extraordinary lengths to hide it. The majority of Tasmanians today have convict ancestry' whether they know it or not. While the public stigma of its convict past has given way to a contemporary fascination with colonial history' Alison Alexander debates whether the convict past lingers deep in the psyche of white Tasmania.
Author : David Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009093207
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel written by David Carter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.
Author : Carmel Bird
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211567
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The Bluebird Cafe written by Carmel Bird and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1988, this collection of twenty-four stories introduced American readers to a wonderful new writing voice from Australia. Carmel Bird's stories are funny-sad, frightening-gentle, mysterious-matter of fact.
Author : L. Young
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598811
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century written by L. Young and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on expressive and material culture, Young shows that money was not enough to make the genteel middle class. It required exquisite self-control and the right cultural capital to perform ritual etiquette and present oneself confidently, yet modestly. She argues that genteel culture was not merely derivative, but a re-working of aristocratic standards in the context of the middle class necessity to work. Visible throughout the English-speaking world in the 1780s -1830s and onward, genteel culture reveals continuities often obscured by studies based entirely on national frameworks.
Author : Sue Joseph
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317383532
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Profile Pieces written by Sue Joseph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history, theory and journalistic practice of profile writing. Profiles, and the practice of writing them, are of increasing interest to scholars of journalism because conflicts between the interviewer and the subject exemplify the changing nature of journalism itself. While the subject, often through the medium of their press representative, struggles to retain control of the interview space, the journalist seeks to subvert it. This interesting and multi-layered interaction, however, has rarely been subject to critical scrutiny, partly because profiles have traditionally been regarded as public relations exercises or as ‘soft’ journalism. However, chapters in this volume reveal not only that profiling has, historically, taken many different forms, but that the idea of the interview as a contested space has applications beyond the subject of celebrated individuals. The volume looks at the profile’s historical beginnings, at the contemporary manufacture of celebrity versus the ‘ordinary’, at profiling communities, countries and movements, at profiling the destitute, at sporting personalities and finally at profiling and trauma.
Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131651448X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel written by Nicholas Birns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and vital present of the Australian novel.
Author : Steve Harris
Publisher : Melbourne Books
ISBN 13 : 1922129836
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Solomon's Noose written by Steve Harris and published by Melbourne Books. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order to "survive"; all in the context of the great struggles of good-evil, life-death, hope-despair, which drew the attention of Darwin, Twain, Trollope and Dickens as Van Diemen's Land evolved from a Hades of Evil to sow the seeds of nationhood. The book paints a vivid picture of the society and poverty from which Blay's character was forged in England and the desperate, brutal nature of being a convict in Van Diemen's Land. Solomon's Noose is an important book in exposing the dark 'underbelly' in the formation of modern Australia. From the furthest corner of that foreign country, the past, comes the haunting story of the convict who became the British Empire's youngest executioner. Beware the shock of the true. - Andrew Rule, award-winning journalist and author. Impressive research and a story that challenges the imagination - except that it's true. A prisoner elects to become a hangman - to improve his lot in life. All this set against the Gothic world of Van Diemen's Land in the time of convicts, bushrangers and rough justice. - Les Carlyon, bestselling author of Gallipoli and The Great War.
Author : William Henry Wilde
Publisher : Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature written by William Henry Wilde and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of Australian literature from the first settlement in 1788 to the current day, this book represents the most important achievements in Australian poetry, drama, and fiction as well as non-fictional prose--journals, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies--and details the impact on the writing caused by those historical events that often serve as a work's theme. More than 3,000 informative entries cover subjects such as transportation, exploration, gold discoveries, bushranging, and outback ethos, all of which played a part in the development of the continent's literature as did the pervasive presence and influence of the Aboriginal culture. Entries range from lengthy articles on special topics to brief factual paragraphs explaining words or references. Also provided is information and reference sources on important past and contemporary writers as well as anything and everything that may have influenced their development: the growth of publishing and periodicals; the impact of movements such as nationalism, racialism, and feminism; and the contributions made by booksellers, critics, and literary associations. A major new Oxford Companion, this book makes an intriguing new genre of literature accessible to all readers.
