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Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils

Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils

Eggert, Paul

Hardcover

Series: Penn State the History of the Book

Australia & OceaniaBusiness of WritingFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0271061960
ISBN13: 9780271061962
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Nov 6 2013
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

B iography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge a career, writing short stories and sketches for the newspapers. Lawson's famous collection came out at a decisive moment for the development of a fully professional Australian literary publishing industry, then in its infancy in Sydney. The volume's editing, design, and production were collaborative events that changed the feel and nature of Lawson's writing. He had to give ground on the order in which his stories were presented and even on their texts--especially the idiosyncratic wordings that helped breathe life into his characters.

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