The Life of Such Is Life : A Cultural History of an Australian Classic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osborne, Roger.

Series:

Sydney Studies in Australian Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Furphy, Joseph, 1843-1912. Such is life--Criticism, Textual.

Furphy, Joseph.

Furphy, Joseph, 1843-1912.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Shortlisted for the AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship 2022 Winner of the Walter McRae Russell Award 2023 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.

Contents:

Intro

Half title page

Title page

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chronology

Introduction: Entangled in the Work

Bushman and Bookworm: Furphy's Literary Foundations

Such is Life: From the Writer's Sanctum to the Literary Marketplace

Versions of Such is Life: Typescript and Book

An Anabranch of Such is Life: Rigby's Romance as Typescript, Serial and Book

The Death of the Author: Kate Baker's Such is Life

Wartime Revival: Tom Collins in the 1940s

Shaping the Canon: Joseph Furphy Goes to University

Epilogue: Where the (adj. sheol) is Joseph Furphy's Such is Life?

Works Cited

Index

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Other Format:

Print version: Osborne, Roger The Life of Such Is Life

ISBN:

9781743328385

1743328389

9781743327760

1743327765

OCLC:

1305840428