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Writing Australian UnsettlementBoredom

Writing Australian Unsettlement: Boredom [Australia was never meant to be fun. It was designed to be a prison: a convict settlement where England’s victims were sent “to pine their young lives away in starvation and misery” (Kelly 67). Historian Russel Ward records the high level of drunkenness in mid-nineteenth-century Australia, but suggests that this was a result of the “loneliness of bush life, no less than the brutalities of the system,” rather than boredom (32–33). Andrew McCann, however, writing on the fiction of Marcus Clarke (1846–1881), claims that, “In the nineteenth century practices of spectatorship, and of culture-consumption more generally, were closely connected to a sense of ennui and boredom” (331).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Writing Australian UnsettlementBoredom

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
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978-1-349-58120-7
Pages
107 –127
DOI
10.1057/9781137465412_6
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Abstract

[Australia was never meant to be fun. It was designed to be a prison: a convict settlement where England’s victims were sent “to pine their young lives away in starvation and misery” (Kelly 67). Historian Russel Ward records the high level of drunkenness in mid-nineteenth-century Australia, but suggests that this was a result of the “loneliness of bush life, no less than the brutalities of the system,” rather than boredom (32–33). Andrew McCann, however, writing on the fiction of Marcus Clarke (1846–1881), claims that, “In the nineteenth century practices of spectatorship, and of culture-consumption more generally, were closely connected to a sense of ennui and boredom” (331).]

Published: Dec 22, 2015

Keywords: Greek Lyric; English Poetry; Australian Literature; Applied Reading; Australian Colonial

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