Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian
literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its
initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy
Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a
pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to
forge a career, writing short stories and sketches for the
newspapers. Lawson's famous collection came out at a decisive
moment for the development of a fully professional Australian
literary publishing industry, then in its infancy in Sydney. The
volume's editing, design and production were collaborative events
that changed the feel and nature of Lawson's writing. He had to
give ground on his texts and their sequencing. The collection went
on to be reprinted and repackaged countless times. Its production
and reception histories act like a geological cross-section,
revealing the contours of successive cultural formations in
Australia. In unravelling the life of Lawson's classic work
Eggert's book-historical approach challenges and clarifies
established understandings of crucial moments in Australian
literary history and of Lawson himself.
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