The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural AustraliaThe Vision Splendid seeks to restore rural Australia to a central place in Australian history by showing how it has shaped Australian culture. It focuses on the culture of work and leisure and the changing conceptions of the Bush in the Australian mind from the late eighteenth century onwards. It maps, for the first time, the development of a set of cultural values and institutions in nineteenth-century rural Australia. |
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Page 172
So writers of novels and melodramas drew their inspiration for Aboriginal
characters , language and humour from that ubiquitous and enduring nineteenth
- century stereotype , the minstrel show ' Negro ' . This stage character was
originally ...
So writers of novels and melodramas drew their inspiration for Aboriginal
characters , language and humour from that ubiquitous and enduring nineteenth
- century stereotype , the minstrel show ' Negro ' . This stage character was
originally ...
Page 252
He had little faith in the play ' s success and , given its working - class characters ,
he may have found its themes personally distasteful as well . 212 But the play ,
written within a realist Australian literary tradition that valorised Bush characters ...
He had little faith in the play ' s success and , given its working - class characters ,
he may have found its themes personally distasteful as well . 212 But the play ,
written within a realist Australian literary tradition that valorised Bush characters ...
Page 261
Not all Australians accepted this version of the origins of Australian character and
identity . ... In Douglas Stewart ' s 1943 verse play Ned and his brother Dan are
ambivalent characters , capable of atrocious deeds but also embodying a spirit ...
Not all Australians accepted this version of the origins of Australian character and
identity . ... In Douglas Stewart ' s 1943 verse play Ned and his brother Dan are
ambivalent characters , capable of atrocious deeds but also embodying a spirit ...
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Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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Aborigines agriculture allowed areas argued associated ATCJ August became Bulletin Bush capital carried cattle century changes characters Chinese claimed colonial communities companies continued course culture December developed early economic English established European families farmers farms February followed History horses houses hunting improvements included industry introduced January June kangaroos labour land late least less lived managers March Minstrel Show nineteenth century Northern noted November October organised pastoral pastoralists performed perhaps period play policies popular practice production properties prosperity Queensland racing reflected relations remained Report result River runs rural Australia Selection selectors September servants settlement settlers shearers shearing sheep shepherds social society sometimes South Wales sport squatters stations stories success Sydney Territory theatre took towns traditional travelled turn urban values Victoria wages Walkabout Western Australia women wool workers World
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia |
| Author | Richard Waterhouse |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Curtin University Books, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 1920731059, 9781920731052 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Australia & New Zealand History / Social History Social Science / Sociology / Rural |
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