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The Australian Literature Resource
The Literature of Tasmania subset provides bibliographical information about all aspects of writing about Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania. The subset contains information about authors who were born in, visited or have written about Tasmania, one of the most distinctive regions of Australia. It also includes information about newspapers and journals from the early colonial period (1803-1850), continuing Aboriginal writing in Tasmania, popular fiction set in Tasmania, the significance and uniqueness of Tasmania as a region in the literary imagination, and other aspects of literary production in Tasmania.
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The University of Tasmania takes special responsibility for recording this field of Australian literature. |
The introduction to the subset will include the following descriptive sections:
- Earlier bibliographical work
- Tasmania in the literary imagination
- Continuing Aboriginal writing
- The journals of George Augustus Robinson
- Newspapers and periodicals to 1850
- Published volumes to 1850
- Convict and historical fiction
- Newspapers and periodicals 1850 to 1900
- Published volumes 1850 to 1900
- Twentieth-century novelists and essayists
- Twentieth-century poets
- Twentieth-century drama and screen writing
- Short fiction
- Popular fiction
- Tasmanian presses and publishing
- Little magazines
- Expatriate and travel writing
- Tasmanian gothic
- Contemporary writers
- Regional literary identity
The Literature of Tasmania subset is a work-in-progress being compiled by Dr Philip Mead and a research team supported by the Australian Research Council and the University of Tasmania. The subset is being developed from January 2006 to the end of 2008.