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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Review of Locating Australian Literary Memory, by Brigid Magner
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'Locating Australian Literary Memory begins with a typically pithy quotation from Miles Franklin about its subject matter: ‘Such monuments, alas, too often are a saving of face by the living in regard to the neglected dead’. Many of the eleven Australian writers focused on by Brigid Magner were indeed neglected during their lifetimes, and most, even if achieving popularity at one time, are little read today. They include a number whose work would still be regarded as canonical, such as Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark, along with two best-known for their books for children, Nan Chauncy and P. L. Travers. Novelist Kylie Tennant, Indigenous author David Unaipon and poet Adam Lindsay Gordon make up the rest of the group, all of whom were writing mainly in the nineteenth through to the mid-twentieth centuries.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Literary Studies vol. 35 no. 2 29 October 2020 20738432 2020 periodical issue 'For our second issue of 2020 we bring you a wide range of approaches to thinking about literature in Australia: these are essays that test the relationship between writing, politics, and history, undertake detailed consideration of language and imagery, and work at the intersection between literary and media history, and literary studies and pedagogy.' (Introduction)
     
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