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Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy's Such is Life has
become established as an Australian classic. But which version of
the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history
reveal about Australian cultural life?From Furphy's handwritten
manuscript through numerous editions, a controversial abridgement
for the British market (condemned by A.D. Hope as a "mutilation"),
and periods of obscurity and rediscovery, the text has been
reshaped and repackaged by many hands. Furphy's first editors at
the Bulletin diluted his socialist message and "corrected" his
Australian slang to create a more marketable book. Later, literary
players including Vance and Nettie Palmer, Miles Franklin, Kate
Baker and Angus & Robertson all took an interest in how
Furphy's work should be published.In a fascinating piece of
literary detective work, Osborne traces the book's journey and
shows how economic and cultural forces helped to shape the novel we
read today.
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Howl of the Wolf (Paperback)
John Henley; Edited by Tip Of The Spear Publications; Roger Osborne
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R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
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Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904) is widely considered his modernist
masterpiece. The first of his major political novels, it depicts
the effects of repeated revolution in a fictional South American
state under the growing influence of the United States of America.
It is an enduring portrait of global economics and politics during
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This first
comprehensive and authoritative critical edition offers an
introduction clarifying the novel's origins and sources, while
explanatory notes detail literary and historical references. An
accompanying essay lays out the history of composition and
publication, detailing interventions made by Conrad's editors. Also
included are appendices of Conrad's source material; glossaries of
nautical and foreign terms; a map; and reproductions of early
drafts. By returning to (and respecting) Conrad's own early
manuscript and typescript forms, this edition presents the novel
and its preface in a form more authoritative than any so far.
Shortlisted for the Walter McRae Russel Award 2019Australian Books
and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s explores how
Australian writers and their works were present in the United
States before the mid-20th century to a much greater degree than
previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and
combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture
studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne
demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational long before
the contemporary period. In mapping Australian literature's
connections to British and US markets, their research challenges
established understandings of national, imperial and world
literatures. Carter and Osborne examine how Australian authors,
editors and publishers engaged productively with their American
counterparts, and how American readers and reviewers responded to
Australian works. They consider the role played by British
publishers and agents in taking Australian writing to America, and
creating new opportunities for novelists to move between markets.
Some of these writers, such as Christina Stead and Patrick White,
remain household names; others who once enjoyed international fame,
such as Dale Collins and Alice Grant Rosman, have been largely
forgotten. The story of their books in America reveals how culture,
commerce and copyright law interacted to create both opportunities
and obstacles for Australian writers.
In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about
the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors,
industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered
machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human
society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic
organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The
Industrial Revolution also dramatically altered humanity's relation
to the natural world and embedded the belief that change, not
stasis, is the necessary backdrop for human existence. Iron, Steam
and Money tells the thrilling story of those few decades, the
moments of inspiration, the rivalries, skulduggery and death
threats, and the tireless perseverance of the visionaries who made
it all happen. Richard Arkwright, James Watt, Richard Trevithick
and Josiah Wedgwood are among the giants whose achievements and
tragedies fill these pages. In this authoritative study Roger
Osborne also shows how and why the revolution happened, revealing
pre-industrial Britain as a surprisingly affluent society, with
wealth spread widely through the population, and with craft
industries in every town, village and front parlour. The
combination of disposable income, widespread demand for industrial
goods, and a generation of time-served artisans created the unique
conditions that propelled humanity into the modern world. The
industrial revolution was arguably the most important episode in
modern human history; Iron, Steam and Money reminds us of its
central role, while showing the extraordinary excitement of those
tumultuous decades.
Twenty-five stories, beginning with the search for an alchemist's secret, and ending with the re-imagination of a past world, each connected to a particular corner of north-east England, and each exploring the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science, and belief gives way to knowledge. Different episodes show how the fall of Constantinople converted the common rock of the Yorkshire cliffs into a source of extraordinary wealth and power, and how this in turn uncovered the inhabitants of a succession of past worlds; how a stone falling from the sky near this same coast changed the minds of all the natural philosophers of Europe; and how a new science was born on the top of the tower of York Minster. We learn about the cloak-and-dagger world of fossil trading in the town of Whitby; and we see the entire life- work of a forgotten scientific genius who died from consumption at the age of twenty-five, having revolutionised his science. The stories move from documentary accounts to fictional recreations of history events, from contemporary writing and illustrations to present-day reflection. By using different ways to describing the world of scientific endeavour, the author has produced a fascinating visually beautiful and highly entertaining book.
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Under Western Eyes (Hardcover, New)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by Roger Osborne, Paul Eggert; Introduction by Keith Carabine; As told to Jeremy Hawthorn
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R4,024
Discovery Miles 40 240
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Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and
revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western
Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological
torment of its Russian protagonist, a university student who, in
betraying another, has betrayed himself. Based upon a comparison of
the existing manuscript and other materials, this scholarly and
first extensively annotated edition of Joseph Conrad's great novel
Under Western Eyes differs from all previous printings by more
accurately reflecting Conrad's writing process. The reading text is
supported by new scholarly materials that are the result of fifteen
years of investigation: essays on the textual and biographical
history of the novel, extensive notes, appendices and maps, as well
as a full listing of the thousands of textual variants in the early
forms of the novel, including the 18,000 words that Conrad himself
deleted.
Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have
described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. But what
do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of
openness and freedom that has produced a good life for many
millions of people and a culture of enormous depth and creative
power. But the history of our civilisation is also filled with
unspeakable brutality - for every Leonardo there is a Mussolini,
for every Beethoven symphony a concentration camp, for every
Chrysler building a My Lai massacre. How can we come to the defence
of a civilisation whose benefits seem so questionable? In this
ambitious and important book Roger Osborne shows that we can only
truly understand our civilization by re-examining and confronting
our past, with all its glories and catastrophes. Sweeping in its
scope and comprehensive in its coverage, Civilzation tells the
story of the western world from its origins to the present. At such
a dangerous time in the world's history, this brilliant book is
required reading.
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