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Janet Lee, Fallen Among Reformers: Miles Franklin, Modernity, and the New Woman

Janet Lee, Fallen Among Reformers: Miles Franklin, Modernity, and the New Woman Sydney University Press, June 2020, 168 pp. (plus works cited and index), ISBN: 9781743326886, p/bk, AUS$45.00 In a new full-length work on Miles Franklin (1879–1954), Janet Lee, Professor of Women,…

Alan Frost, Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology: Bounty’s Enigmatic Voyage

Alan Frost, Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology: Bounty’s Enigmatic Voyage Sydney University Press, 2018,  336pp.,  ISBN: 9781743325872, p/bk, AUS $40.00 With more than 3,000 published books and articles about the Bounty’s voyages and its various aftermaths, do we need another one? Professor Frost believes we do…

Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver, Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy

Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy Sydney University Press, 153 pp, ISBN: 9781743324615, p/bk, RRP AUS$40.00 Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy (2017), from Sydney University Press, is…