"Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda and the Uses of Literary Power"
Proceedings of the X Conference of the Portuguese Anglo-American Studies Association [APEAA], Aveiro: APEAA, 1991: 101-109.
Download (.pdf) Insularity and connectivity: reading archipelagic effects.
In Journal of Australian Studies, Special Issue: Australian artists' perception of the Mediterranean Islands, (invited essay), (forthcoming), 2014.
Henry Handel Richardson
by Susan Lever
Dictionary of Literary Biography vol 230 Australian Writers 1788-1914 edited by Selina Samuels. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2001. 11-21.
This article follows DLB style giving an account of the writer's career, major achievements and an overview of... more This article follows DLB style giving an account of the writer's career, major achievements and an overview of critical reception.
Helen Garner
by Susan Lever
Dictionary of Literary Biography vol 325 Australian Writers edited by Selina Samuels. Detroit: Broccoli Clark Layman, 2006. 102-109.
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Martin Boyd
by Susan Lever
Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 260 Australian Writers 1915-1950 edited by Selina Samuels. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002. 14-21.
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Empanelling the squatters: Christian behaviour and politics in Furphy’s Such is Life.
by Susan Lever
Paper delivered at the 'In Search of Tom Collins' conference, Lake Mungo, April 2012
In Chapter IV of Such is Life, Tom Collins tells us that 'there is no typical squatter. Or, if you like, a... more
In Chapter IV of Such is Life, Tom Collins tells us that 'there is no typical squatter. Or, if you like, a thousand types.' (164) This paper examines the various squatters in Furphy's novel, his sympathy for some of them, and his inability to propose any successful alternatives for their dominance of the land. It argues that the subject matter of Such is Life—the ownership of property that should belong to all—is as political as any study of unionism might have been. The ‘absence of the shearers’ indicates Furphy’s identification of land monopoly as a more serious source of inequality than wage injustice.
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In Furphy's Footsteps
by Susan Lever
Feature article in Canberra Times, Panorama section, April 21, 2012
Account of trip in search of the places in Joseph Furphy's novel, Such is Life. Account of trip in search of the places in Joseph Furphy's novel, Such is Life.
Review: David Foster: The Satirist of Australia by Susan Lever
Australian Literary Studies, vol.26 no.2 (2011), pp121-123.
"Symptoms of Homesickness" (poem).
"Symptoms of Homesickness." Transnational Literature 2. 1 (Nov. 2009). Web.