The Australian Common Reader is an interactive digital archive of the reading habits and practices of ordinary Australians since the nineteenth century. You can use it to search or browse for detailed information about Australian library holdings and loans, and search or browse archives of individual readers based on their diaries and letters.
September 1, 2008
Tim Dolin • Papers, Reading
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.
June 8, 2008
Tim Dolin • Diaries, Papers, Victorian Fiction
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.
June 8, 2008
Tim Dolin • Papers
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.
September 1, 2008
Tim Dolin • Papers, Reading
June 8, 2008
Tim Dolin • Diaries, Papers, Victorian Fiction
June 8, 2008
Tim Dolin • Papers