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Rosa Praed's readership: in search of an Australian audience

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Lamond, Julieanne

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This paper is inspired by something Elizabeth Webby has taught me about the work of literary studies: that is not only about what is in books, but also what happens to them after they are written. That is, that we can write histories of readers as well as of writers. This paper traces the history of Rosa Praed's Australian readership, considering who read her novels in this country and under what circumstances. In focusing on Praed's second novel, Policy and Passion: a novel of Australian life...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorLamond, Julieanne
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-08T01:04:04Z
dc.date.available2011-12-08T01:04:04Z
dc.identifier.issn0038-3732
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/8765
dc.description.abstractThis paper is inspired by something Elizabeth Webby has taught me about the work of literary studies: that is not only about what is in books, but also what happens to them after they are written. That is, that we can write histories of readers as well as of writers. This paper traces the history of Rosa Praed's Australian readership, considering who read her novels in this country and under what circumstances. In focusing on Praed's second novel, Policy and Passion: a novel of Australian life (1881), I have encountered another readership worth tracing: the Australian readership as a trope, an idea circulating around Praed's novels as well as within them.
dc.format14 pages
dc.publisherEnglish Association, Sydney
dc.rights"Southerly grants permission for the work listed below to be placed into the ANU repository" - email from editor, dated 17/11/11
dc.sourceSoutherly 67.1-2 (2007): 121-134
dc.titleRosa Praed's readership: in search of an Australian audience
dc.typeJournal article
local.identifier.citationvolume67
dc.date.issued2007
local.identifier.absfor200502 - Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9313329xPUB299
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.englishassociation.org/
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.brandl.com.au/
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationLamond, Julieanne, ANU, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, School of Cultural Inquiry
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1-2
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage121
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage134
dc.date.updated2015-12-09T09:44:30Z
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