Rigby's Romance by Joseph Furphy is the stunning yet steamy love story between adventurer Tom Collins and his old love, Kate. Tom Collins is traveling to Yooringa from Echuca to fulfill a contract on a cattle run. He also hopes to meet up with his old friend Jefferson Rigby. On the way, he encounters Kate Vanderdecken, Rigby's former sweetheart, who has traveled to Australia searching for him.
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.
" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
"Michael Pierse is Lecturer in Irish literature at Queen's University Belfast. His research mainly explores the writing and cultural production of Irish working-class life. Over recent years this work has expanded into new multidisciplinary themes and international contexts, including the study of festivals, digital methodologies in public humanities and theatre-as-research practices. Michael has contributed to a range of national and international publications, is the author of Writing Ireland's Working Class: Dublin after O'Casey (2011), and has been awarded several Arts and Humanities Research Council awards and the Vice Chancellor's Award at Queen's"--
The Buln-Buln and the Brolga by Joseph Furphy is about a young man who is soon to receive his old friend, Fred Pritchard, who will soon stay in Melbourne with his wife and son. Excerpt: "I THINK it was in the spring of '84. Anyway, in the exercise of my apostolate as the mechanical expert for the Mohawk Twine Binder, I was temporarily quartered in Echuca. One evening, on reaching my lodgings at Mrs. Ferguson's Coffee Palace, I found a letter and a telegram awaiting me. The wire was from my firm, in Melbourne:-- Meet Lascelles first through train tomorrow. WAGHORN BROS."
This study examines the cultural life of Australia in the last decade of the nineteenth century, a period in which a remarkable flowering of culture was taking place. Literature, printing, design, journalism and intellectual and political movements are examined in this wide-ranging and incisive contribution to Australian cultural history. By the author of the influential and critically acclaimed TAustralian Cultural Elites' and TIn a Critical Condition'.
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofJoseph Furphywich areSuch is Life and Rigby's Romance. Joseph Furphy novels combine an acute sense of local Australian life and colour with the eclectic philosophy and literary ideas of a self-taught workingman. Novels selected for this book: - Such is Life. - Rigby's Romance. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
