Jocoserious ‘Ignorance Shifting’ or ‘Aestho-Psycho-Eugenics’?: Interrogating Joseph Furphy’s Bulletin ‘apprenticeship’

Authors

  • Frances Devlin-Glass Deakin University (as Honorary Associate Professor)

Keywords:

Joseph Furphy, colonial fiction, Bulletin, Australian English, Aborigines in Fiction

Abstract

Annotating Joseph Furphy’s first publication for the Bulletin raises some intriguing questions: to what extent was Furphy the product of the Bulletin writing academy, the late nineteenth century equivalent of a writing course, or to what extent was his talent sui generis? I intend to put this question to an extreme test, by reading closely his first published contribution to the Bulletin in 1889, ‘The Mythical Sundowner’.

Author Biography

  • Frances Devlin-Glass, Deakin University (as Honorary Associate Professor)
    Associate Professor Frances Devlin-Glass teaches Literary Studies at Deakin University.

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Published

2013-06-28