Republics of Letters

<p>Introduction: republics of letters and literary communities<em> by Peter Kirkpatrick and Robert Dixon</em></p><p><strong>Part 1: sites of sociability scenes of reading</strong></p><p>1. Literary community cultural hierarchy and 20th-century American readers<em> by Joan Shelley Rubin</em></p><p>2. The 'federation of literary sympathy': the Australasian Home Reading Union<em> by Kyle Mirmohamadi</em></p><p>3. Communities of readers: Australian reading history and library loan records<em> by Julieanne Lamond</em></p><p>4. Pacifying Brisbane: <em>The Muses' Magazine</em> and the 1920s<em> by Patrick Buckridge</em></p><p>5. Books and debate about the Australian government's policies towards asylum seekers<em> by Jan Zwar</em></p><p><strong>Part 2: republics of letters - local national and international literary communities</strong></p><p>6. Scenes of reading: is Australian literature a world literature?<em> by Robert Dixon</em></p><p>7. Modernising Anglocentrism: <em>Desiderata</em> and literary time<em> by David Carter</em></p><p>8. Jindy modernist: the Jindyworobaks as avant garde<em> by Peter Kirkpatrick</em></p><p>9. <em>Bobbin Up</em> in the <em>Leseland</em>: Australian literature in the German democratic republic<em> by Nicole Moore and Christina Spittel</em></p><p>10. An American introduction: perfect readers unread books and Christina Stead's <em>The Man Who Loved Children by Fiona Morrison</em></p><p>11. Connectivity community and the question of literary universality: reading Kim Scott's chronotope and John Kinsella's commedia<em> by Philip Mead</em></p><p><strong>Part 3: sociality gender and genre</strong></p><p>12. The great parenting tradition: charting a history of parenting-book writers and readers in colonial Australia<em> by Michelle de Stefani</em></p><p>13. Reading publics watching audiences: <em>Lady Audley's Secret</em> in 19th-century Melbourne<em> by Susan K. Martin</em></p><p>14. 'I must be my own director': Cynthia Reed Elisabeth Lambert and Read & Harris Publishers<em> by Jane Grant</em></p><p>15. 'Opposing all the things they stand for': women writers and the women's magazines<em> by Susan Sheridan</em></p><p>16. Seven writers and Australia's literary capital<em> by D'Arcy Randall</em></p><p><strong>Part 4: unsettlements - emerging literary communities</strong></p><p>17. 'Networking bumping into sucking up to catching up with meeting greeting chatting joking criticising': the emerging writers' community as <em>respublica literaria by Keri Glastonbury</em></p><p>18. An unsettled community: Harpur's carnival Harris' assonance Mackellar's code<em> by Michael Farrell</em></p><p>19. The beginners guide to being an Australian: John O'Grady's <em>They're a Weird Mob by Lindsay Barrett</em></p><p>20. 'He lacks almost all the qualities of the novelist': G.M. Glaskin and his Australian contemporaries<em> by Jeremy Fisher</em></p><p>21. Anthologies and the anti-republic of Australian gay and lesbian poetry<em> by Ann Vickery</em></p><p>22. 'All the village was running': some voices from young refugees in western Sydney<em> by Lachlan Brown</em></p><p>23. Distance<em> by Bonny Cassidy</em></p><p>Contributors</p><p>Index</p>