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Anthology Of Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction
AvKen Gelder,Rachael Weaver
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
362 kr
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This anthology collects the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is the stuff of nightmare. In stories by Marcus Clarke, Mary Fortune and Henry Lawson, the colonial homestead is wracked by haunted images of murder and revenge. Settlers are disoriented and traumatised as they stumble into forbidden places and explorers disappear, only to return as ghostly figures with terrible tales to tell. These compelling stories are the dark underside to the usual story of colonial progress, promise and nation-building, and reveal just how vivid the gothic imagination is at the heart of Australian fiction.
Del 2 - Colonial Australian Popular Fiction
Force and Fraud
A Tale of the Bush
AvEllen Davitt,Ken Gelderm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
224 kr
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Force and Fraud
A Tale of the Bush
AvEllen Davitt,Rachael Weaverm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
236 kr
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A bad-tempered squatter is murdered in country Victoria and the local townsfolk are swept up in the rush to solve the crime. Will the squatter's beautiful daughter, Flora McAlpin, save her lover from the gallows? Or is the circumstantial evidence against him too strong?
Ellen Davitt's Force and Fraud: A Tale of the Bush is a feisty account of a murder investigation in the colonies that takes the twists and turns of English sensation fiction in a uniquely Australian direction. The novel brings an innovative forensic eye to its crime, reinventing the squatter romance as it takes its characters from country to city and from public house to courthouse. Force and Fraud was serialised in the popular, long-running Australian Journal from 2 September to 18 November 1865.
This edition includes an introduction by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver.
‘a romance with a tight mystery plot . . . an assured whodunnit’
Lucy Sussex, Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab (2015)

‘Force and Fraud is pioneering in its status as the first murder mystery in Australia . . .’
Kate Watson, Women Writing Crime Fiction, 1860-1880 (2012)
Australian Bush Track
AvJ. D. Hennessey,Rachael Weaverm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
236 kr
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An Australian Bush Track (1896) is a dark novel, a colonial fantasy-adventure by author J.D. Hennessey in the style of H. Rider Haggard’s She. The story of an expedition into the Queensland interior by a group of speculators hot on the trail of fabulous wealth, its heroine is a charismatic young bushwoman equipped with heedless courage, a fast horse and a rifle. The novel is unrepressed in its representation of colonial racism and the driving forces behind it: frontier violence and dispossession, land acquisition and the relentless pursuit of wealth and resources.
An Australian Bush Track takes us on an expedition to unknown territories, encountering lost worlds and inland seas. Along the way there are amorous train journeys, coach chases, Aboriginal attacks, shoot outs and unwanted marriage proposals. The novel also gives us an Australian girl who charts her own route through a speculative male fantasy.
The edition includes an introductions by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver.
The Colonial Journals: And the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture
AvKen Gelder,Rachael Weaver
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
701 kr
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Colonial Australian Fiction
Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy
AvKen Gelder,Rachael Weaver
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
392 kr
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Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared – and disappeared – in Australian literature. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies’ developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social and economic circumstances of life in the colonies.
Colonial Kangaroo Hunt
AvKen Gelder,Rachael Weaver
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
346 kr
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From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachel Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, and a source of violent conflict between settlers and Aboriginal people. The kangaroo hunt worked as a rite of passage and an expression of settler domination over native species and land. But it also enabled settlers to begin to comprehend the complexity of bush ecology, raising early concerns about species extinction and the need for conservation and the preservation of habitat.

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Rachael Weaver – författare

Anthology Of Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction

Force and Fraud

Force and Fraud

Australian Bush Track

The Colonial Journals: And the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture

Colonial Australian Fiction

Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

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