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

Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils
Author: Paul Eggert
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1743320140

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

Faces in the Street

Faces in the Street
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2010
Genre: Streets
ISBN: 9780987065308

Includes the open Faces in the Street by Henry Lawson

Brighten's Sister-in-law

Brighten's Sister-in-law
Author: Henry Lawson
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Lawson was one of Australia's best-known writers and poets. This is a long story about a father who has to care for his son who is in poor health. The story is set in the outback in the goldrush days. Joe Wilson has to care for his son Jim who has been a sickly child from his early years. Life is hard and Lawson describes the feelings of the father very well.

On the Track

On the Track
Author: Henry Lawson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3387010222

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Cowboy Poets & Cowboy Poetry

Cowboy Poets & Cowboy Poetry
Author: David Stanley
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2000
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780252068362

This book offers the first in-depth examination of a distinctive and community-based tradition rich with larger-than-life heroes, vivid occupational language, humor, and unblinking encounters with birth, death, nature, and animals in the poetry.

The Real Henry Lawson

The Real Henry Lawson
Author: Colin Roderick
Publisher: Adelaide ; New York : Rigby
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1982
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: