Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils - Couverture souple

Eggert, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1743320124 ISBN 13 : 9781743320129

Editeur : Sydney University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge a career, writing short stories and sketches for the newspapers. Lawson's famous collection came out at a decisive moment for the development of a fully professional Australian literary publishing industry, then in its infancy in Sydney. The volume's editing, design and production were collaborative events that changed the feel and nature of Lawson's writing. He had to give ground on his texts and their sequencing. The collection went on to be reprinted and repackaged countless times. Its production and reception histories act like a geological cross-section, revealing the contours of successive cultural formations in Australia. In unravelling the life of Lawson's classic work Eggert's book-historical approach challenges and clarifies established understandings of crucial moments in Australian literary history and of Lawson himself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Eggert FAHA is Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Chicago and the University of New South Wales. He is a scholarly editor, book historian and editorial theorist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sydney University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1743320124
• ISBN 13: 9781743320129
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 354
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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