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Barron Field in New South Wales - The Poetics of Terra Nullius (Paperback)
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Barron Field in New South Wales - The Poetics of Terra Nullius (Paperback)
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On 24 February 1817, Barron Field sailed into Sydney Harbour on the
convict transport Lord Melville to a ceremonial thirteen-gun
salute. He was there as the new Judge of the Supreme Court of Civil
Judicature in New South Wales — the highest legal authority in
the turbulent colony. Energetic and gregarious, Field immediately
set about impressing his vision of a future Australia as a liberal
and prosperous nation. He courted the colony's leading figures,
engaged in scientific research and even founded Australia's first
bank. He also wrote poetry: in 1819, he published First Fruits of
Australian Poetry, the first book of poems ever printed in the
country. In England, Field had been the theatre critic for The
Times, and a friend of such major Romantic writers as William
Wordsworth, Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt. In New South Wales, he saw
the chance to become a major figure himself, someone who could
shape culture and society in enduring ways. Founding Australian
poetry was part of that ambition; so too was law. Asked to
determine whether Governor Macquarie had authority to impose taxes
in the colony, Field issued a fateful judgement that established,
for the first time, what is now called terra nullius. This book is
an extraordinary reconstruction of the circumstances and
implications of Field's actions in New South Wales using an
original and revealing method: the close reading of his poetry.
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