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 120
... 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 first appeared in the Bulletin in ...
... 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 first appeared in the Bulletin in ...
Page 185
... 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 ignorant and foolish , but ...
... 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 ignorant and foolish , but ...
Page 188
... stories and images , with women occupying the domestic and men the outside space , the stage images of women portrayed them in rather different terms , as strong , resourceful and independent.95 In The Squatter's Daughter , for example ...
... stories and images , with women occupying the domestic and men the outside space , the stage images of women portrayed them in rather different terms , as strong , resourceful and independent.95 In The Squatter's Daughter , for example ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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