Papers by Julieanne Lamond
Journal francais d'ophtalmologie, 2005
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A Living Legacy: Publishing in Australia, 2019
This essay seeks to characterise the relationship between two key institutions in the contemporar... more This essay seeks to characterise the relationship between two key institutions in the contemporary Australian literary field: book reviews and literary prizes. We find that the relationship between literary prizes and book reviews is one of interdependence and amplification. By “interdependence”, we mean that there is significant movement of agents between the two sectors as well as a mutual influence of the sectors upon each other. By “amplification”, we refer to the fact that attention in one sector often leads to heightened attention in the other. Reviews value many of the same works as prizes—especially in the case of works of fiction—and their value assessments are magnified when those works go on to win prizes. Prizes also implicitly and explicitly evidence responses to reviews. Furthermore, success in prizes usually leads to better review coverage for the author’s subsequent publications.
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Australian Literary Studies, 2014
This essay uses the records of local library borrowers' choices in the early twentieth century to... more This essay uses the records of local library borrowers' choices in the early twentieth century to approach a body of fiction that has been given many names: popular fiction, forgotten books, 'the great unread', victims of 'the slaughterhouse of literature'. These definitions are not coextensive but my interest is in works that were once read (widely, or intensively in particular places and times) and are now largely unknown. These are important to literary history in part because they form, as Margaret Cohen argues, the constitutive context in which other, more visible, literary works were read and written, published and sold. They arealso notoriously difficult to study - Glover and McCracken suggest that the critical histories of popular fiction 'are still in the process of being made' (5). The making of such histories requires that we direct our attention beyond the known to the unread books. I suggest that the best way to approach the great unread is to follow in the footsteps of those who did read these books, and to focus on the points where their paths met.
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The Year's Work in English Studies, 2013
Considering the criticism of Australian literature for 2003 one is struck by the disjunction betw... more Considering the criticism of Australian literature for 2003 one is struck by the disjunction between the prevailing interest in indigenous and Asian Australian writing, and the tendency in the media to portray indigenous peoples and Asians, especially refugees, as almost demonic forces ...
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This is the first editorial in the fifty-three year history of ALS that will not pass through the... more This is the first editorial in the fifty-three year history of ALS that will not pass through the hands of a typesetter. It will not be sent to a printer, nor will it be part of an issue that is tucked into envelopes and posted all around the world. In taking ALS online, we are doing quite belatedly what many journals have already done, but we are doing so in a manner that is well within what I like to think of as the ALS house style. This is an approach to scholarly publishing that takes very seriously its responsibilities as producer, curator and caretaker of the history of Australian literary scholarship. Over the past five decades, its previous editors, Laurie Hergenhan and Leigh Dale, have gone about the business of scholarly publishing in a style that is rigorous, principled and increasingly independent.
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In Gail Jones’s novel Sorry, two girls living in an isolated Australian town share a theory about... more In Gail Jones’s novel Sorry, two girls living in an isolated Australian town share a theory about reading in common:
Mary had a theory that when people read the same words they were imperceptibly knitted … there were transactions, comminglings, adjacencies of mind and of sense … even in the world-weariness that reading sometimes induces, they absorbed irresistibly, naïvely, elements of the lives they imagined. A kind of family without limits.
The novel presents Mary’s theory as naive, but nonetheless it expresses an intuitive sense of commonality or imagined relationship often attached to mutual reading of the same book – especially, as happens in library borrowing, the same copy of the same book. Later in the novel reading in common is described as providing a “zone of connection” between people distant in time and space. This term is useful for describing the uncertain yet circumscribed nature of shared reading experiences. This chapter describes the extent to which we can trace the “zones of connection” enabled by reading in a small and relatively isolated Australian town in the early years of the twentieth century by examining their library borrowing.
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This essay presents and analyses the initial results of a large-scale and comparative quantitativ... more This essay presents and analyses the initial results of a large-scale and comparative quantitative survey of book reviews to draw some conclusions about the current state of Australian book reviewing as a field. We argue that the gender disparity in Australian book reviewing that has been identified by the Stella Count over the past four years needs to be seen in the wider context of changes to the nature and extent of book reviews over time. We compare two key publications across two years, three decades apart: Australian Book Review (ABR) and The Australian in 1985 and 2013.
This study is motivated by an interest in the interrelationship between forms of writing about literature that take place within and beyond the academy. Book reviewing is an understudied sector of the literary field, despite the fact that it has an influence on authors’ careers, book sales and publishers’ commissions as well as on the determinations of literary value that underlie the discipline of Literary Studies. In this paper, we use ‘literary journalism’ to broadly describe writing about literature published in non-academic outlets in the print and online media, of which book reviews are a subset. We use ‘academic literary criticism’ to describe writing about literature which is published in scholarly journals and monographs.
Our study finds a situation in which the allocation of space within the books pages of The Australian and ABR is shifting: the number of books being reviewed has dramatically decreased across both publications, and the proportion of feature reviews has substantially increased. We find that the ubiquitous red-and-blue pie charts produced by feminist literary organisations Stella and VIDA, with their focus on percentage and not scale, underestimate the implications of the gender bias they identify. When we compare The Australian and ABR in 1985 to 2013 we can see that changes in the size and shape of the book reviewing field, as well as to review type and length, have compounded the disparity identified by repeated attempts to quantify it.
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Sydney Review of Books
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Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia, 2012
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When Barbara Baynton's volume of short stories, Bush Studies, was published by Duckworth in 1902,... more When Barbara Baynton's volume of short stories, Bush Studies, was published by Duckworth in 1902, critics lauded and deplored the realism of the work, often in the same breath. 1 In the majority of contemporary reviews, admiration is tinged with shock and concern. These stories were powerful, surely, but what might they reveal, and to whom? Australian critics were particularly concerned about how Baynton's "sordid" portrayal of life in the outback might be taken as representative of Australian life by readers overseas. 2 The stories in Bush Studies are deeply unsettling, not least because they are deliberately ambiguous. This ambiguity is one reason the stories have been subject to the process of continued critical reevaluation and dispute noted by Leigh Dale. "Billy Skywonkie" is a story the ambiguity of which seems to have infected its critical reception. This essay seeks to make explicit what is often left unclear in discussions of the story: it is remarkable for presenting a narrative told in part from the point of view of a woman experiencing racism in its intersection with sexual and economic vulnerability in the early years of the twentieth century.
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The key question when approaching literary studies with empirical methods is how to move between ... more The key question when approaching literary studies with empirical methods is how to move between the generalisations involved in empirical research and the attention to the particular that characterises literary analysis: in other words, how such data could be made useful to literary analysis? This chapter examines one such approach. Specifically, it uses a collaboration between Australian literary studies and statistical machine learning to suggest how, in practice, empirical modes of research can speak to, enhance, or even help to direct more traditional modes of literary analysis.
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This article contextualizes Ken G. Hall’s 1940 film Dad Rudd, M.P. with the history of Dad Rudd, ... more This article contextualizes Ken G. Hall’s 1940 film Dad Rudd, M.P. with the history of Dad Rudd, a fictional character who pervaded Australian popular culture throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that the fiction, theatre, film, cartoon and radio narratives in which he appeared have been instrumental in the creation of the idea of a popular Australian audience that can be defined in relation to a particular set of national symbols. Addressing Hall’s film as well as the promotional material and public debate surrounding it, the article demonstrates that conceptualizations of an Australian national audience have been influenced by the genres and narratives of popular culture, historical circumstance and American cultural production.
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This paper examines the cultural and political legacies of Dad Rudd, a fictional character who fi... more This paper examines the cultural and political legacies of Dad Rudd, a fictional character who first appeared in short stories by “Steele Rudd” (A.H.Davis) in the Bulletin in 1895 and has since appeared in popular fiction, theatre, film, television and radio adaptations throughout the twentieth century. It traces a set of national tropes – particularly that of the battler - through stump speeches made by Dad Rudd in On Our Selection! (1899), Dad in Politics (1908), the stage melodrama On Our Selection (1912), and Ken G. Hall’s film Dad Rudd, M.P.(1940), and considers how they have continued to be used to create both political and cultural constituencies in Australia.
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Mary had a theory that when people read the same words they were imperceptibly knitted … there were transactions, comminglings, adjacencies of mind and of sense … even in the world-weariness that reading sometimes induces, they absorbed irresistibly, naïvely, elements of the lives they imagined. A kind of family without limits.
The novel presents Mary’s theory as naive, but nonetheless it expresses an intuitive sense of commonality or imagined relationship often attached to mutual reading of the same book – especially, as happens in library borrowing, the same copy of the same book. Later in the novel reading in common is described as providing a “zone of connection” between people distant in time and space. This term is useful for describing the uncertain yet circumscribed nature of shared reading experiences. This chapter describes the extent to which we can trace the “zones of connection” enabled by reading in a small and relatively isolated Australian town in the early years of the twentieth century by examining their library borrowing.
This study is motivated by an interest in the interrelationship between forms of writing about literature that take place within and beyond the academy. Book reviewing is an understudied sector of the literary field, despite the fact that it has an influence on authors’ careers, book sales and publishers’ commissions as well as on the determinations of literary value that underlie the discipline of Literary Studies. In this paper, we use ‘literary journalism’ to broadly describe writing about literature published in non-academic outlets in the print and online media, of which book reviews are a subset. We use ‘academic literary criticism’ to describe writing about literature which is published in scholarly journals and monographs.
Our study finds a situation in which the allocation of space within the books pages of The Australian and ABR is shifting: the number of books being reviewed has dramatically decreased across both publications, and the proportion of feature reviews has substantially increased. We find that the ubiquitous red-and-blue pie charts produced by feminist literary organisations Stella and VIDA, with their focus on percentage and not scale, underestimate the implications of the gender bias they identify. When we compare The Australian and ABR in 1985 to 2013 we can see that changes in the size and shape of the book reviewing field, as well as to review type and length, have compounded the disparity identified by repeated attempts to quantify it.
Mary had a theory that when people read the same words they were imperceptibly knitted … there were transactions, comminglings, adjacencies of mind and of sense … even in the world-weariness that reading sometimes induces, they absorbed irresistibly, naïvely, elements of the lives they imagined. A kind of family without limits.
The novel presents Mary’s theory as naive, but nonetheless it expresses an intuitive sense of commonality or imagined relationship often attached to mutual reading of the same book – especially, as happens in library borrowing, the same copy of the same book. Later in the novel reading in common is described as providing a “zone of connection” between people distant in time and space. This term is useful for describing the uncertain yet circumscribed nature of shared reading experiences. This chapter describes the extent to which we can trace the “zones of connection” enabled by reading in a small and relatively isolated Australian town in the early years of the twentieth century by examining their library borrowing.
This study is motivated by an interest in the interrelationship between forms of writing about literature that take place within and beyond the academy. Book reviewing is an understudied sector of the literary field, despite the fact that it has an influence on authors’ careers, book sales and publishers’ commissions as well as on the determinations of literary value that underlie the discipline of Literary Studies. In this paper, we use ‘literary journalism’ to broadly describe writing about literature published in non-academic outlets in the print and online media, of which book reviews are a subset. We use ‘academic literary criticism’ to describe writing about literature which is published in scholarly journals and monographs.
Our study finds a situation in which the allocation of space within the books pages of The Australian and ABR is shifting: the number of books being reviewed has dramatically decreased across both publications, and the proportion of feature reviews has substantially increased. We find that the ubiquitous red-and-blue pie charts produced by feminist literary organisations Stella and VIDA, with their focus on percentage and not scale, underestimate the implications of the gender bias they identify. When we compare The Australian and ABR in 1985 to 2013 we can see that changes in the size and shape of the book reviewing field, as well as to review type and length, have compounded the disparity identified by repeated attempts to quantify it.