Peter Pierce

The Country of Lost Children

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces the ambivalent and disturbing images of the figure of the lost child in Australia's history and imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780521594400
• ISBN-10: 0521594405
• Artikelnr.: 29337086

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. In the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Lost Child: 1. The lost child introduced: Henry Kingsley's The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn
2. 'Come let us sing of this fair child heroic': Jane Duff and her brothers
3. Alfred Boulter A Monument at Daylesford
4. Marcus Clarke's Lost Children
5. The case of Clara Crosbie
6. Frederick McCubbin's Images of the Lost Child
7. Fairytales of the 1890s
8. The bush balladists' turn
9. Mrs Praed and the punishment of Mrs Tregaskiss
10. Henry Lawson and 'The Babies in the Bush'
11. Joseph Furphy's 'Perfect Young-Australian'
Part II. In the Twentieth Century: The Child Abandoned: 1. In the theatre
2. In fiction
3. Book into film
4. True stories
Works consulted
Index.