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Marion Spies – Female Histories from Australia and Canada as Counter-Discourses to the National

Female Histories from Australia and Canada as Counter-Discourses to the National Marion Spies Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) (1) Transnational Female Historiography This is a reply to and a continuation of the articles by Sanjay Sircar, “My Career Goes Bung: Genre−Parody, Australianness and Anglophilia” and by Barbara Korte, “Survival […]

Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp – Performing Gender and Genre in Miles Franklin’s My Career Goes Bung

Performing Gender and Genre in Miles Franklin’s My Career Goes Bung Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) Gender and genre are issues at the heart of both My Brilliant Career and its sequel My Career Goes Bung: both novels chronicle their heroines’ rebellion against “prescribed femaleness” (Bung 447)36) […]

Monika Gomille – A Response to “Some Notes on the ‘Single Sentiment’ and Romanticism of Charlotte Smith”

A Response to “Some Notes on the ‘Single Sentiment’ and Romanticism of Charlotte Smith” Monika Gomille Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) During recent years, the poems of Charlotte Turner Smith (1749−1806) have, after almost two centuries of neglect, come to be recognized as belonging to the most important poetry […]

Liam Semler – Well-Wishing Adventurers: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Narrative Poems by A. D. Cousins and Recent Responses to Shakespeare’s Non-Dramatic Verse

Well-Wishing Adventurers: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Narrative Poems by A. D. Cousins and Recent Responses to Shakespeare’s Non-Dramatic Verse Liam Semler Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) Although the Fair Youth is not Hamlet, the ageing Speaker not Lear, and the Dark Lady (anxiety−inducing though she be) not Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s […]

Rick Bowers – Edward II, “Actaeonesque History,” Espionage and Performance

Edward II, “Actaeonesque History,” Espionage and Performance Rick Bowers Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) Christopher Wessman relates the Actaeon story from classical myth to the concerns of Marlowe’s Edward II in terms of metaphor, history, tragedy, and politics. Richly textured and informative, his argument along mythological lines reveals much […]