Writing to Colonial Australia: Barron Field and Charles Lamb

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Notes

[1] I am grateful to Graham Huggan, Alys Mostyn, and particularly John Whale for their helpful comments on a draft version of this article.

[2] For a suggestive analysis of Lamb's essay, see Nield.

[3] For colonisation, terra nullius, and the (mis)treatment of Aborigines, see Banner; Frost; Hiatt chapter 2; Lindqvist; Mulvaney; and Reynolds The Law of the Land.

[4] See Gascoigne.

[5] Critics have often been dismissive of Field's poetry, but in addition to Ackland, see Byrnes; Cousins; and Elliott 45–51.

[6] The full text can be read at http://www.pm.gov.au/media/speech/2008/speech_0073.cfm (accessed 30 March 2009).

[7] For a useful recent survey of racial theory in the period, see Kitson. For more specific accounts of “the Aborigine,” see Gascoigne chapter 8; Mulvaney; Reynolds “Racial Thought in Early Colonial Australia”; and Turnbull.

[8] I take this phrase from Michael Ignatieff's fine discussion of Lear (41).

[9] See Reynolds “The Land, the Explorers, and the Aborigines.”

[10] See Elder.