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Making and Unmaking 'Marvellous Melbourne': The colonial city as palimpsest in neo-Victorian fiction and non-fiction

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2015

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Mitchell, Katherine (Kate)

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Koninklijke Brill

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This article discusses the representation of colonial Melbourne in Robyn Annear's creative nonfiction, Bearbrass (1995), and A. L. McCann's novel, The White Body of Evening (2002). It suggests that their depictions of the city are drawn from the material

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/64753

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Open Access Research

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Book chapter

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Neo-Victorian Cities: Reassessing Urban Politics and Poetics

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10.1163/9789004292338_003

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2037-12-31

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