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Wiliam Howitt investigates and reflects on the Victorian 'Black Thursday' bushfires, 6 February 1851.
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Truth and Terror in Fire's Ancient Kingdom
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— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , April vol. 4 no. 3 2009; (p. 12-13) In the wake of the 2009 Black Saturday fires, John Blay examines William Howitt's writing about the 1851 Victorian Black Thursday fires. Blay concludes: 'How can we manage to sort truth from terror when we don't have in our popular story the words for different forms of fire? Fire-prone Australia must rejig its language'.
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Truth and Terror in Fire's Ancient Kingdom
2009
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , April vol. 4 no. 3 2009; (p. 12-13) In the wake of the 2009 Black Saturday fires, John Blay examines William Howitt's writing about the 1851 Victorian Black Thursday fires. Blay concludes: 'How can we manage to sort truth from terror when we don't have in our popular story the words for different forms of fire? Fire-prone Australia must rejig its language'.
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