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'This is the first comprehensive documentation and critical appraisal of the fascinating range of German literary responses to the Fifth Continent prior to colonisation and to watersheds in Australia's social history during the first 130 years of white settlement. The literature surveyed encompasses emigration handbooks, diaries, travelogues, exotic romance, adventure narratives, juvenile fiction and utopian extravaganzas, as well as a modest corpus of devotional, lyric and polemic verse in anthologies, German-Australian newspaper feuilletons and prisoner-of-war weeklies. Featuring among the better known authors are Therese Huber, Amalie Schoppe, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Sophie Wörishöffer, Friedrich Mader and Paul Scheerbart. But equal prominence is given to versatile 'migrant' writers such as Theodor Müller and Stefan von Kotze.' (Publication summary)
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
- The Armchair Fictionists : Eurocentric Visions of the South Land (1794-1843), single work criticism (p. 23-46)
- 'At Home in Foreign Climates' : Friedrich Gerstaecker's Australian Writings, single work criticism (p. 73-102)
- Stefan von Kotze (1869-1909): Bilingual Journalist, Story Writer, Literary Critic and 'Bard of the Backblocks', single work criticism (p. 172-192)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 15 no. 3 1992; (p. 246-247)
— Review of German Images in Australian Literature from the 1940s to the 1980s 1990 single work criticism ; Antipodean Encounters : Australia and the German Literary Imagination 1754-1918 1990 single work criticism -
Critics Consider Lands, Places, and Their Ironies
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 6 no. 1 1992; (p. 83-84)
— Review of An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature 1991 selected work prose criticism biography ; Norman Lindsay on Art, Life and Literature 1990 selected work short story prose correspondence review criticism ; Antipodean Encounters : Australia and the German Literary Imagination 1754-1918 1990 single work criticism
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Critics Consider Lands, Places, and Their Ironies
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 6 no. 1 1992; (p. 83-84)
— Review of An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature 1991 selected work prose criticism biography ; Norman Lindsay on Art, Life and Literature 1990 selected work short story prose correspondence review criticism ; Antipodean Encounters : Australia and the German Literary Imagination 1754-1918 1990 single work criticism -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 15 no. 3 1992; (p. 246-247)
— Review of German Images in Australian Literature from the 1940s to the 1980s 1990 single work criticism ; Antipodean Encounters : Australia and the German Literary Imagination 1754-1918 1990 single work criticism
