Archive for Papers
Fiction and the Australian Reading Public, 1888-1914
For a brief moment in the history of the modern West, between about 1880 and 1920, narrative fiction in books, newspapers, and magazines dominated the rapidly growing markets for transnational mass-produced popular entertainment in English, before being challenged successively by cinema, radio, and television.
Victorian Domestic Fiction and the Settler Reader: Annie Baxter Dawbin, 1834-1868
At the forefront of the new empiricism in literary studies has been the call for a “larger idea of literary history” and a counter-intuitive idea of how to approach critical reading.
The Secret Reading Life of Us
It is no secret that Australia, when it was formally constituted as a nation in 1901, was already a nation of readers; nor that most Australians read, and still read, fiction.
Reading History and Literary History: Australian Perspectives
To anyone conversant with the history of European Australia, Michel de Certeau’s well known metaphor for reading may strike a distinctive and slightly uncomfortable note.