Introducing material from about 50 colonial journals, Gelder and Weaver argue that colonial journals had an important role in the development of Australian literary culture, from the early
nineteenth century--through the Federation and beyond--lasting at least until the beginning of World War I, when the book ends. There are 10 chapters/parts: beginnings and endings: the
precarious life of a colonial journal; the making of Australian literature; colonial authors, canons and taste; stories and poetry from the colonial journals; colonial journals and their
artists; the journal covers; colonial types: emergent and residual; colonial types: the Australian girl; race and the frontier; colonial modernity. With much never reprinted material in the
volume, the first section covers a period of about 90 years of literary development. The next three parts take a look at ways the journals mapped out the literary field in Australia. Parts five
and six look at the artists and illustrator. The remaining parts look at the ways Australia, itself, was represented. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland,
OR (protoview.com)
