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The country of lost children : an Australian anxiety
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"From stories of colonial children lost in the bush to the recent cases of Graeme Thorne, Azaria Chamberlain and Jaidyn Leskie, the figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. ...
"From stories of colonial children lost in the bush to the recent cases of Graeme Thorne, Azaria Chamberlain and Jaidyn Leskie, the figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's original and sometimes shocking study, The Country of Lost Children, traces this ambivalent and disturbing history."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Peter Pierce
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- Language
- English
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
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- xviii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521594400, 0521594405, 9780521594998, 0521594995
- OCLC
- ocm40675031
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-205) and index.
- Pt. I. In the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Lost Child. The Lost Child Introduced: Henry Kingsley's The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn. 'Come Jet us sing of this fair child heroic': Jane Duff and her brothers. Alfred Boulter. A Monument at Daylesford. Marcus Clarke's Lost Children. The Case of Clara Crosbie. Frederick McCubbin's Images of the Lost Child. Fairytales of the 1890s. The Bush Balladists' Turn. Mrs Praed and the Punishment of Mrs Tregaskiss. Henry Lawson and 'The Babies in the Bush'. Joseph Furphy's 'Perfect Young-Australian' -- Pt. II. In the Twentieth Century: The Child Abandoned. In the Theatre. Ray Lawler: Bubba and the Baby Dolls. 'They wasn't in our line': The Lost Children of Patrick White. In Fiction. 'Our dread of the coming society': Thomas Keneally's Fiction. 'Keeping control of the young': Frank Moorhouse and the Lost Child. Leone Sperling's Mother's Day. Home Time with Beverley Farmer. 'Who would bring kids into this world?': Ian Moffitt's The Colour Man. 'I've had my children': Jennifer Maiden's Play with Knives. 'Infected by Lost Child disease': The Fiction of Carmel Bird. The Lost Child's Unwelcome Return: David Malouf's Remembering Babylon. Book into Film. The Back of Beyond. Walkabout. Picnic at Hanging Rock. Manganinnie. Fortress. Evil Angels. True Stories. Peter Carey's Testaments. Abductions. 'Little boy lost in a lost town'. Talk of the Devil. Orphans of the Empire. The Stolen Generation
Subjects
- Australian literature -- History and criticism.
- Missing children in literature.
- National characteristics, Australian, in literature.
- Abandoned children -- Australia -- History.
- Missing children -- Australia -- History.
- Abandoned children in literature.
- Wilderness areas in literature.
- Australia -- Social conditions.