The colonials / Brian Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzpatrick, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Australia--Fiction.

Teachers.

Australia--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Nearly half a century ago, a young Australian journalist without a newspaper decided to try his hand at writing a novel. He was Brian Fitzpatrick, who was later to win public notice as an historian, as a radical polemicist and lobbyist on the fringe of the Labour movement, and as first General Secretary of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties. Yet The Colonials is far more a 'psychological' novel than a social panorama or a story with a plot. It was surely the first Australian novel to capture the nuance of a school-teacher's condition-underpaid, conscious of moral superiority to his more vulgar and less well-informed neighbours, resentful of his low standing in a society differentiated by income or appearances more than intelligence or respectability. There is ample plunder here for social historians of the more predatory sort.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Part I EDVARDUS REX

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Part II SINCE THE OLD KING DIED

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Part III SOMEBODY'S WAR

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Part IV MR COLLINS'S TOMORROWS

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522864489

0522864481

OCLC:

1493608714