Abstract
In his introduction to Eric Partridge’s little-known classic of the First World War, Frank Honywood, Private, Geoffrey Serle comments:
the First AIF [Australian Imperial Force], a volunteer citizen’s army as no other was, was made up of a near cross section of Australian society by class, religion and education – mechanics, clerks, farmers and laborers, Protestant and Catholics, state and ‘public’ school products, predominantly conventional, more or less Christian products of their time. It had its full small-minority share also of intellectual ‘sensitives’.1
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Amanda Laugesen, ‘Australian Soldiers and the World of Print During the Great War’, in Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History, ed. by Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 ), p. 93.
Joseph McAleer, Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914–1950 ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992 ), pp. 71–73.
Jonathan Wild, ‘“Insects in Letters”: John O’London’s Weekly and the New Reading Public’, Literature and History, 15:2 (2006), 50–62 (p. 51).
See Ernest Scott, Australia During the War ( Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1936 ).
Richard Nile and David Walker, ‘“The Paternoster Machine” and the Australian Book Trade, 1890–1945’, in A History of the Book in Australia, 1891–1945: A National Culture in a Colonial Market, ed. by John Arnold and Martyn Lyons (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001), pp. 3–18 (pp. 3, 7).
David Carter, ‘The Mystery of the Missing Middlebrow, or, The C(o)urse of Good Taste’, in Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New World, ed. by Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), pp. 173–201 (p. 183).
Virginia Woolf, ‘Character in Fiction’, in Selected Essays, ed. by David Bradshaw (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 37–54 (p. 38).
Christopher Hilliard, ‘Modernism and the Common Writer’, Historical Journal, 48:3 (2005), 769–87 (p. 780).
John Hirst, The Sentimental Nation: the Making of the Australian Commonwealth ( Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2000 ), pp. 24–25.
Leigh Dale, The English Men: Professing Literature in Australia ( Canberra: Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1997 ), p. 33.
Robert Dixon, ‘Australian Fiction and the World Republic of Letters, 1890–1950’, in The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, ed. by Peter Pierce (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 223–54 (p. 224).
Lesley Heath, Sydney Literary Societies of the Nineteen Twenties: Cultural Nationalism and the Promotion ofAustralian Literature (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of New South Wales, 1996), p. 2.
R. J. W. Selleck, The Shop: The University of Melbourne 1850–1939 ( Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2003 ), p. 508.
Les Carlyon, The Great War ( Sydney: Macmillan, 2006 ), p. 752.
Alexander Donaldson Ellis, The Story of the Fifth Australian Division ( London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920 ), p. 27.
C. E. W. Bean, The Australian Imperial Force in France during the Allied Offensive, 1918 ( Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1942 ), p. 19.
Henry Chappell, The Day and Other Poems ( London: Bodley Head, 1918 ).
William Albert Amiet, Courses in Literary History ( Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1938 ).
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2015 Jim Cleary
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Cleary, J. (2015). William Albert Amiet, Barrister-at-Law, M.A., Reads His Way through the Great War. In: Towheed, S., King, E.G.C. (eds) Reading and the First World War. New Directions in Book History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137302717_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137302717_8
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-57059-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-30271-7
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature CollectionLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)