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The Literary Mother Who Shaped Turnbull’s Thinking
2015
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 December 2015; (p. 20) 'Academic and author Coral Lansbury had a complex, often distant, relationship with her son.' -
Country and Lives : Australian Biography and Its History
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cercles , no. 35 2015; 'There have been attempts to relate national characteristics “by reference to climate, habitat and soil and investing the collective subject with psychological attributes” for over two millennia. More recently historians of modern nationalism developed elaborate typologies often citing Martin Heidegger’s arguments that “the being of the human finds its essence in the being of place — the belonging together of being and topos” [MALPAS 2012 : 5-6]. And yet the challenge to the ontological connection between self and place, what Jeff Malpas describes as the “topological analysis of self and identity”, has a long philosophical tradition, too. This debate over experience, biography and nation has implications for historians who have raised empirical questions about the development of collective sensibilities over time among recent emigrant peoples, their physical peculiarities, behaviourial quirks and emergent national character. In this paper I consider the role that biography writing played in the construction of an Australian national identity geared to what Pierre Nora famously termed as the “roman national”, or the collective discourse on the history of the nation and its place in the world. I argue that Australian historians played a significant role in the history of biograpy writing and, related to it, the debate over collective Australian identity.' (Introduction) -
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Momentous Decade : Society and Thought : Australia, 1838-1848
Canberra
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1976
19373512
1976
single work
thesis
'In searching for the origins of the Australian ethos it is tempting to regard convicts and "old hands" as the seedbed of Australian political democracy as well as part of the humus that nourished mateship and egalitarianism. While, as Russel Ward documents in The Australian Legend, many Australian social attitudes data back to convict days, the origin of Australian political democracy followed urban English rather than American or Australian frontier patterns.' (Thesis description)
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Untitled
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 5 no. 3 1972; (p. 328-333)
— Review of Arcady in Australia : The Evocation of Australia in Nineteenth-century English Literature 1970 single work criticism -
A Fanciful Arcadia
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 31 no. 1 1972; (p. 99-100)
— Review of Arcady in Australia : The Evocation of Australia in Nineteenth-century English Literature 1970 single work criticism
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Never Like This?
1971
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 27 March vol. 93 no. 4748 1971; (p. 53-55)
— Review of Arcady in Australia : The Evocation of Australia in Nineteenth-century English Literature 1970 single work criticism -
A Fanciful Arcadia
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 31 no. 1 1972; (p. 99-100)
— Review of Arcady in Australia : The Evocation of Australia in Nineteenth-century English Literature 1970 single work criticism -
Untitled
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 5 no. 3 1972; (p. 328-333)
— Review of Arcady in Australia : The Evocation of Australia in Nineteenth-century English Literature 1970 single work criticism -
Botany Bay or Arcady : Nineteenth Century Images of Australia
1972
single work
criticism
— Appears in: World Literature Written in English , vol. 11 no. 2 1972; (p. 33-52) -
The Literary Mother Who Shaped Turnbull’s Thinking
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 December 2015; (p. 20) 'Academic and author Coral Lansbury had a complex, often distant, relationship with her son.' -
Country and Lives : Australian Biography and Its History
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cercles , no. 35 2015; 'There have been attempts to relate national characteristics “by reference to climate, habitat and soil and investing the collective subject with psychological attributes” for over two millennia. More recently historians of modern nationalism developed elaborate typologies often citing Martin Heidegger’s arguments that “the being of the human finds its essence in the being of place — the belonging together of being and topos” [MALPAS 2012 : 5-6]. And yet the challenge to the ontological connection between self and place, what Jeff Malpas describes as the “topological analysis of self and identity”, has a long philosophical tradition, too. This debate over experience, biography and nation has implications for historians who have raised empirical questions about the development of collective sensibilities over time among recent emigrant peoples, their physical peculiarities, behaviourial quirks and emergent national character. In this paper I consider the role that biography writing played in the construction of an Australian national identity geared to what Pierre Nora famously termed as the “roman national”, or the collective discourse on the history of the nation and its place in the world. I argue that Australian historians played a significant role in the history of biograpy writing and, related to it, the debate over collective Australian identity.' (Introduction) -
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Momentous Decade : Society and Thought : Australia, 1838-1848
Canberra
:
1976
19373512
1976
single work
thesis
'In searching for the origins of the Australian ethos it is tempting to regard convicts and "old hands" as the seedbed of Australian political democracy as well as part of the humus that nourished mateship and egalitarianism. While, as Russel Ward documents in The Australian Legend, many Australian social attitudes data back to convict days, the origin of Australian political democracy followed urban English rather than American or Australian frontier patterns.' (Thesis description)