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A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828-2017 by Andrew James Couzens
Category: No Category | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
The bushranger legend is an important component of Australia's cultural history, with names like Ned Kelly and Ben Hall still provoking strong, if ambivalent, responses. Storytellers mobilize this legend in unique and exciting ways that reflect upon both the cultural and actual history of bushrangers, a ...Show more
A Trip to the Dominions - The Scientific Event That Changed Australia by Lynette Russell (Editor)
Category: History | Series: Australian Studies
On the eve of the Great War, in 1914 the Australian Federal Government sponsored the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to?travel to Australia for their annual conference. Over 150 scientists were fully funded by the Australian Commonwealth government and they travelled on three s ...Show more
Attuned to Alien Moonlight: The Poetry of Bruce Dawe by Dennis Haskell
Category: Fiction | Series: Studies in Australian literature series
Bruce Dawe is widely appreciated as a social satirist, but many readers are unaware of the range and various dimensions of his poetry. Dennis Haskall offers an insightful exploration of all Dawe's poetry from his first publication in 1954 to 2001.
Australian Religious Thought Six Explorations by Wayne Hudson
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
This book provides new perspectives on the relationship between religious thought and social reform in Australia. It argues that religious thought can be found in many intellectuals in Australia, both in the religiously inclined and in those who were not conventionally religious. Drawing together existi ...Show more
Australian Short Fiction : A History by Bruce Bennett
Category: Fiction | Series: Uqp Studies in Australian Literature
Circus and Stage: Theatrical Adventures in Asia, Europe and Australasia: The Lives of Rose Eouin and G B W Lewis by Mimi Colligan
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Australian studies
Rose Edouin (nee Bryer) and her husband, entrepreneur and circus performer George Benjamin William Lewis, have received little attention in the history of Australian theatre, and certainly few now would be aware of the achievements of this couple. Fame is ephemeral. For more than half a century, from 18 ...Show more
Class Wars["Money, Schools and Power in Modern Australia"] by Tony Taylor
Category: Education | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
Eilean Giblin: A Feminist Between the Wars by Patricia Clarke
Category: Biography | Series: Australian studies
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Fashioned from Penury - Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia by Margaret Maynard
Category: Fashion | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
From the first white settlement clothing was of vast social significance to Australians. It was central to the ways class and status were negotiated and equally significant for marking out sexual differences. Dress was implicated in definitions of morality, in the relationship between Europeans and Abor ...Show more
From Roadside to Recovery The Story of the Victorian State Accident Commision by Peter Bragge & Russell Gruen
Category: Australian History | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
In 1969 car crashes killed over 1000 Victorians, making Victoria's roads some of the world's most deadly. By 2016, the fatality rate had been cut by 85% and Victorians are now taking seriously the goal of eliminating death on the roads altogether.This extraordinary achievement is the product of sustaine ...Show more
From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820-2012 by Bruce Bennett
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian Literary Studies
Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender explore the lives and creative work of Australia's many expatriate writers living and working in Britain since the early nineteenth century. They contest the notion of Australia as an 'import culture' and show Australians exporting literary talent to Britain and further afi ...Show more
Gerald Murnane - Another World in This One by Anthony Uhlmann (Editor)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Anot ...Show more