Francis Adams's Construction of the 'real Australia' in <em>The Australians</em>

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  • Meg Tasker The University of Ballarat

Keywords:

Francis Adams, Vance Palmer, Australian legend, bush legend

Abstract

The paper examines the selective way that Francis Adams's 1893 book The Australians has been drawn on by subsequent writers about the Australian Legend, including G.A. Wilkes, Vance Palmer and others.

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2013-02-11

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1997: Land and Identity: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference

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