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1 The First Celebrity : Anthony Trollope's Australasian Odyssey Nigel Starck , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 31 no. 1 2017; (p. 83-88)

'By 1871, he had retired from the post office, put his beautiful house at Waltham Cross on the market, abandoned his parliamentary ambitions, and resigned as editor of the miscellany Saints Pauls. The reasons for her presence are not explained in Trollope's Australian memoir; possibly the plain fare at the sheep station had something to do with it-but I am inclined to think there was another reason, one that this essay will explore shortly. The only previous visitors of note to Australia were Charles von Hügel, botanist and explorer (a limited tour in 1833-34); Charles Darwin, the naturalist, who spent two months in Australia in 1836 as part of his voyage on the Beagle, but this was twenty years before publication of On the Origin of Species; Charles Dilke (1867), later to achieve fame and notoriety as an English politician, who included some brief Australian experiences in a book titled A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries; Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, fourth child of Queen Victoria, who called at major ports during his naval service on HMS Galatea; and Lola Montez, the exotic and erotic dancer who left California for a tour in 1855 of the Australian goldfields. Subsequently he (at the age of fifty-six) descended mines, spent a month with shearers and wool-shed workers, rode his horse into the loneliness of the bush, penetrated the opium dens of the goldfields, and slept rough (on the ground) during a long cross-country trek in Western Australia.' (Publication abstract)
1 Obituary Nigel Starck , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : O 2014; (p. 320-321)
1 y separately published work icon The First Celebrity : Anthony Trollope's Australasian Odyssey Nigel Starck , Bath : Lansdown Media , 2014 7713199 2014 single work biography

'Anthony Trollope – prolific novelist and inveterate traveller – explored Australia and New Zealand in the 1870s. In completing this odyssey, he became the first celebrity in popular culture to visit the Australasian colonies. His memoir inspired by those travels (Australia and New Zealand) was described by The Times as "the best account" of those lands "yet published".

'Now, to mark the bicentenary of Trollope’s birth, the Australian author Nigel Starck reveals the full story: the mix of acclamation and condemnation that Anthony Trollope provoked; his encounters with gold prospectors, the Aborigines of Australia and the Maori of New Zealand, pioneers, and convicts; his constant battles with the colonial press; the son whose life as a sheep farmer inspired a novel; and the ancient baronetcy inherited by Trollope’s Australian descendants after misadventure and misfortune elsewhere in the extended family.' (Publisher's abstract)
1 [Untitled] Nigel Starck , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 5 no. 2 2013;
— Review of Lusting for London : Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950 Peter Morton , 2011 single work criticism
1 3 y separately published work icon Proud Australian Boy : A Biography of Russell Braddon Nigel Starck , Kew : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2011 Z1807819 2011 single work biography 'Russell Braddon - Burma Railway survivor and prolific man of letters - has left a remarkable legacy: a prisoner-of-war memoir The Naked Island selling two million copies and still in print sixty years later; a total of twenty-nine books including the acclaimed novel The Proud American Boy and biographies of Joan Sutherland, Nancy Wake, and Leonard Cheshire; a series of television documentaries notably the 1988 Australian Bicentenary series Images of Australia; thirty years as a prominent radio broadcaster; and twenty-five years as chairman of the Society of Australian Writers London. In an eventful life 1921-1995, he also developed a telepathy act that topped the bill at the London Palladium, wrote commentaries and features for major newspapers, and led a political action group opposed to Britain's Common Market entry. This biography investigates those many challenges and achievements - and, for the first time, assesses Russell Braddon's contribution to society. (Publisher's website) '
1 Foreign Correspondent Had the Bush in His Blood Nigel Starck , 2010 single work obituary (for Errol Hodge )
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 May 2010; (p. 16) The Canberra Times , 22 May 2010; (p. 16)
1 The Mind of Russell Braddon Nigel Starck , 2009 single work biography
— Appears in: The National Library of Australia Magazine , September vol. 1 no. 3 2009; (p. 12-15)
1 Anthony Trollope's Travels and Travails in 1871 Australia Nigel Starck , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , October vol. 19 no. 1 2008; (p. 19-21) Australian newspaper accounts of Trollope's travels in Australia in 1871 and the press reaction to his Australia and New Zealand (1873).
1 6 y separately published work icon Life after Death : The Art of the Obituary Nigel Starck , Carlton : Melbourne University Publishing , 2006 Z1304163 2006 single work criticism
1 Tales of Life, Not Death Nigel Starck , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Eureka Street , January-February vol. 15 no. 1 2005; (p. 24-25) Traces the art of obituary writing in newspapers from the earliest known recognisable obituary in England in 1664 to current styles adopted by Australian newspapers. Compares the popularity of obituary sections in Australian, British and American newspapers.
1 y separately published work icon Writes of Passage: A Comparative Study of Newspaper Obituary Practice in Australia, Britain and the United States Nigel Starck , 2004 Z1314766 2004 single work thesis Australian newspapers in recent years have increased significantly the column space devoted to obituaries. The Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, the Age, the West Australian, the Herald Sun, the Canberra Times, the Advertiser, and the Courier-Mail now publish them in dedicated sections, often allocating an entire page to the obituary art. Their popularity in Australia follows a pattern established during the 1980s in Britain and the United States. Australian practice has been influenced in particular by developments in British journalism, which has seen a phenomenon described by the Wall Street Journal as ?an odd revival?the rebirth of long newspaper obituaries?.? In its first incarnation, the obituary can be traced to the newsbooks of England which appeared in the 1660s, during the Restoration. It flowered in the 18th century, in the first daily newspapers and magazines; it grew luxuriant, and sometimes ornate, in the 19th century; it became unfashionable and fell into some general neglect in the 20th. Then, with the appointment of reformist editors and, particularly in Britain, the publication of bigger newspapers by an industry no longer subjected to labour restraint, the obituary itself experienced restoration. Though the momentum of renewed practice has been of mutual rapidity on three continents, there are some significant variations in its application. The American product generally favours a style faithful to news-writing principles so far as timing and content are concerned and is frequently expansive when relating the details of surviving family and funeral arrangements. In Britain, the emphasis is more on creative composition and a recitation of anecdotes, with less of a sense of urgency about news value and a consequent accent on character sketch. Both models, in recent years, have displayed a propensity for explicit appraisal and an increasing willingness to publish obituaries of those who have undermined, rather than adorned, society. Newspapers in Australia, while adopting the obituary with apparent fervour, have found their delivery of the product restrained by a lack of resources. Obituary desks in this country are staffed by a solitary journalist-editor. This has resulted in a reliance, often to an unhealthy degree, on contributions by readers. The tone of this material, with its intimacy of address and excess in sentiment, sits uneasily when appearing on the same page as obituaries syndicated from overseas sources. Contemporary obituary publication in the United States has been subjected to some scholarly analysis in terms of gender balance, identification of cause of death, and the demographic mix of its subject selection. This thesis, by means of a six-month content analysis, addresses such questions for the first time in an Australian context. In addition, it examines issues of style, origin and authorship. It finds that cause of death is identified much less than is the case in American obituary practice, that women are significantly under-represented, and that editing is sometimes haphazard. Nevertheless, the accumulated body of evidence points resolutely to a remarkable reinvigoration of practice in Australia?s daily newspapers. The thesis, by discussing the views of specialists in the field of obituary publication, pursues mechanisms for sustaining the momentum and for improving the product. (Thesis abstract)
1 Capturing Life - Not Death: A Case for Burying the Posthumous Parallax Nigel Starck , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 5 no. 2 2001; "This article compares publication styles and policies, and examines (on the basis of the author's own experience) the challenges inherent in both the exercise and the teaching of the obituary art."--Author's abstract
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