Category Archives: Australian Convict Novels

In the pro­cess of bat­tling my way back to health (read: whole­sale slaughter of bac­teria), there was little time left to read up on vari­ous online blogs & news. Pic­ture my sur­prise then, when upon my return to the great … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

The Guard­i­an reports today on the deport­a­tion of Eng­lish chil­dren to Aus­tralia, see­ing as there’s a new movie out, Oranges and Sun­shine, about the Eng­lish social work­er who tracked these events and man­aged to bring the people affected togeth­er. The dis­reg­ard … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

I came across a fas­cin­at­ing post this morn­ing, show­ing the film­ing of Mar­cus Clarke’s For the Term of His Nat­ur­al Life in 1926 includ­ing a kangaroo brought onto the set. To add some Aus­trali­an feel… I’m sure that’s exactly what we’re … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

I’m cur­rently beaver­ing through the syl­labus for the con­vict nov­el sem­in­ar, and could­n’t help noti­cing just how much the wiki­pe­dia por­trait of Mar­cus Clarke rep­res­ents that Vic­tori­an bug­bear: the gen­tle­man. Sed­ate, bearded, respect­able, & some­what sombre. I am sure part … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

“Aus­trali­an con­vict nov­els” is in synch with my cur­rent big research pro­ject,  a com­par­at­ive genre study of all 40something Aus­trali­an con­vict nov­els to date. Which is one of the reas­ons why it has been placed at level III of the B.A. … Con­tin­ue read­ing →