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Biography of a Book : Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eggert, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian prose literature.
- Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922.
- Literature publishing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Biography of a Book
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Tracing the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and after, its publication: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils from 1896, Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of pared-back bush realism, as he struggled to forge a career writing for newspapers.
- Contents:
- Intro
- BIOGRAPHY OF A BOOK
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTE ON CURRENCY
- CHRONOLOGY
- LIVES OF WORKS
- Biographical-textual-material
- A return to the literary
- The national, postcolonial and transnational paradigms
- Transnational perspectives
- Empirical evidence and literary studies
- Statistical methods in literary study
- William St Clair, book history and economic theory
- Conclusion
- A WRITING CAREER IN THE MAKING
- Sydney
- Lawson and Socialism
- LAWSON IN THE LITERARY MARKTPLACE
- Lawson in the Worker
- To New Zealand
- Lawson in the Bulletin
- Lawson's pre-1893 stories and sketches in the Bulletin
- Lawson's sketches as sequences
- Short Stories in Prose and Verse (1894)
- AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER
- In the Days When the World Was Wide: Publication and reception
- George Robertson as publisher
- Extant and missing documentation
- THE REVISION AND COPY-EDITING OF WHILE THE BILLY BOILS
- Jose as copy-editor
- Kipling as Jose's model
- Lawson's colonial vernacular
- Other hands evident on printer's copy
- THE MAKING OF A BOOK
- From printer's copy to proofs, late 1895 to mid-1896
- The missing stories
- The sequence of events in production
- The illustrations
- The foliation of printer's copy
- Despatch of printer's copy in two or more tranches
- RESPECTING THE MARKETPLACE
- The illustrations and the chronology of production
- The typesetting
- The production in summary
- Lawson's final stint: Revising the proofs
- LAWSON'S NO LONGER
- Printing and publication
- Settling on a title
- The delay in publication until August 1896
- The 'Thousands' of While the Billy Boils
- The English issue of While the Billy Boils
- Cheaper prices and divided formats
- EARLY RECEPTION OF WHILE THE BILLY BOILS
- A reviewing campaign.
- Lawson's pessimism and his realism
- Response to the 'sequences'
- The British reviews, and their effect in Australia
- The ongoing discussion
- Later discussions
- The 'academic critic' and Edward Garnett
- WHO MADE THE MONEY, AND HOW MUCH?
- The cost of 'Pursuing Literature'
- What Lawson earned
- The publisher's profits
- Profit comparison: While the Billy Boils and Robbery Under Arms
- 'PURSUING LITERATURE'
- Lawson at work in England: The first year
- Lawson at work in England: The second year
- THE AFTERLIFE OF WHILE THE BILLY BOILS
- Death and resurrection
- On the boil again, in Britain
- The collected Prose Works: Lawson's divided reputation
- Postwar
- Lawson's divided reputation
- Sales of the Collecteds
- The selections
- LAWSON'S REPUTATION IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD
- The sudden contemporaneity of Australian literature in the 1890s
- The interwar period
- The postwar period
- Vance Palmer
- Russel Ward
- The feminist revaluation of Ward's case
- Marilyn Lake and Graeme Davison
- Kay Schaffer
- The professional postwar literary critics
- A. A. Phillips and Frederick Macartney
- G. A. Wilkes, Stephen Murray-Smith and Brian Kiernan
- Brian Matthews
- AUSTRALIAN LITERARY CRITICISM AND SCHOLARLY EDITING FROM THE 1980s
- H. P. Heseltine
- Brian Kiernan and the Essential Henry Lawson
- Colin Roderick's editions
- Roderick's sequences
- Roderick: Conclusion
- A new literary criticism of Lawson?
- Book history and a future for literary criticism
- The 'material' fetish
- A PRODUCTION HISTORY OF EDWARD DYSON'S RHYMES FROM THE MINES
- THE CURIOUS HISTORY OF THE FRANK MAHONY ILLUSTRATIONS IN WHILE THE BILLY BOILS
- POSTWAR PRINTINGS OF WHILE THE BILLY BOILS AND PROSE SELECTIONS
- 1. Post-World War II publications of While the Billy Boils.
- 2. Post-World War II Lawson prose collections, and selections containing items from While the Billy Boils
- 3. Post-World War II anthologies by multiple authors including items from While the Billy Boils
- ANGUS &
- ROBERTSON'S RECORD-KEEPING
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781743327708
- 1743327706
- OCLC:
- 1258684808
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