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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33 In the 1880s and after , the Bulletin with its stories and poetry about Bush life
circulated widely in rural Australia , perhaps proving more popular with the
selectors and itinerants than with the squatters . The stories of On Our Selection ,
which ...
33 In the 1880s and after , the Bulletin with its stories and poetry about Bush life
circulated widely in rural Australia , perhaps proving more popular with the
selectors and itinerants than with the squatters . The stories of On Our Selection ,
which ...
Page 185
87 Yet through Steele Rudd ' s stories , a series of popular novels , and in such
melodramas as The Bushwoman , My Mate , a Bush Love Story and On Our
Selection , representations of selectors underwent a transformation . They were
still ...
87 Yet through Steele Rudd ' s stories , a series of popular novels , and in such
melodramas as The Bushwoman , My Mate , a Bush Love Story and On Our
Selection , representations of selectors underwent a transformation . They were
still ...
Page 188
Whereas Sue Rowley has argued that the notion of separate spheres was a
fundamental theme of Bush stories and images , with women occupying the
domestic and men the outside space , the stage images of women portrayed
them in ...
Whereas Sue Rowley has argued that the notion of separate spheres was a
fundamental theme of Bush stories and images , with women occupying the
domestic and men the outside space , the stage images of women portrayed
them in ...
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Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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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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