The Uses of Literacy in Colonial Australia Cookery / food for low-sugar / sugar-free dietsRelying on autobiographical documents, this book analyses what Australians read in the 19th century, as well as what they wrote, in terms of personal and everyday, non literary writings. It emphasises the Britishness of colonial society, without forgetting specifically Australian inflections of readers responses. Australian reading embraced wide ranging tastes.
This book tackles this question through case studies drawn from early modern England
This edition of Lady Florence Dixie’s Gloriana
Illustrated throughout with film stills as well as photographs of featured locations as they appear today
This book takes its cue from the annus miabilis for French culture to outline French modernism and to situate it on the map of global modernism
the attempts to implement this vision
the floating city on film
with a new introduction and extensive notes
the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text – and how they mediate embodied life and material presence
First published in 1897 and never out of print since
providing a comprehensive toolbox with key concepts and methods for students
and the urban Lowland highlighting in turn the factors that particularly influenced each of these areas
cabinet and parliament between 1760 and 1832