Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine

There is no doubt that Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine will, for many years to come, be an indispensable resource for scholars writing about the works of Thomas Keneally. Of course, Keneally continues to produce new works – in 2020, for example, he published a new novel, The Dicken...

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Main Author: Henningsgaard, Per
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: UNIV QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90065
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description There is no doubt that Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine will, for many years to come, be an indispensable resource for scholars writing about the works of Thomas Keneally. Of course, Keneally continues to produce new works – in 2020, for example, he published a new novel, The Dickens Boy – so, over time, Paul Sharrad’s scholarly monograph will be seen as increasingly incomplete. Indeed, the most recent of Keneally’s works that receives meaningful coverage in the book is the 2014 publication of the third volume in Keneally’s unique history of Australia; the series is titled Australians, and this volume is subtitled ‘Flappers to Vietnam’. Nonetheless, it is difficult to imagine a future scholar writing about any of the works produced in the first fifty years of Keneally’s career (Keneally’s first book was The Place at Whitton, which was published in 1964) without referencing Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine; the depth and quality of the research is just that good. Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine, by Paul Sharrad. Anthem Press, 2019.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-900652024-02-07T06:37:15Z Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine Henningsgaard, Per Arts & Humanities Literature, African, Australian, Canadian Literature There is no doubt that Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine will, for many years to come, be an indispensable resource for scholars writing about the works of Thomas Keneally. Of course, Keneally continues to produce new works – in 2020, for example, he published a new novel, The Dickens Boy – so, over time, Paul Sharrad’s scholarly monograph will be seen as increasingly incomplete. Indeed, the most recent of Keneally’s works that receives meaningful coverage in the book is the 2014 publication of the third volume in Keneally’s unique history of Australia; the series is titled Australians, and this volume is subtitled ‘Flappers to Vietnam’. Nonetheless, it is difficult to imagine a future scholar writing about any of the works produced in the first fifty years of Keneally’s career (Keneally’s first book was The Place at Whitton, which was published in 1964) without referencing Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine; the depth and quality of the research is just that good. Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine, by Paul Sharrad. Anthem Press, 2019. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90065 10.20314/als.e209728015 English UNIV QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES restricted
spellingShingle Arts & Humanities
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Literature
Henningsgaard, Per
Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine
title Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine
title_full Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine
title_fullStr Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine
title_full_unstemmed Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine
title_short Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine
title_sort thomas keneally's career and the literary machine
topic Arts & Humanities
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Literature
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90065