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ACR is seeking archival information, historical records, or any data related to the circulation of fiction from all sources in Australia since 1800. In particular we are interested in records from, or information about:
- Australian Mechanics Institutes, Literary Institutes, and Schools of Arts
- public libraries
- commercial subscription or circulating libraries
- private libraries and collections
- book clubs
- booksellers records
- newspapers and magazines
- diaries or letters
We also welcome proposals to submit structured information (in the form of tables, spreadsheets, or databases) to ACR.
Please contact Assoc. Prof. Tim Dolin at the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845. Ph: +61 8 92663769 or email t.dolin@curtin.edu.au.
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September 1, 2008
Tim Dolin • Papers, Reading
For a brief moment in the history of the modern West, between about 1880 and 1920, narrative fiction in books, newspapers, and magazines dominated the rapidly growing markets for transnational mass-produced popular entertainment in English, before being challenged successively by cinema, radio, and television.
June 8, 2008
Tim Dolin • Diaries, Papers, Victorian Fiction
At the forefront of the new empiricism in literary studies has been the call for a “larger idea of literary history” and a counter-intuitive idea of how to approach critical reading.
June 8, 2008
Tim Dolin • Papers
It is no secret that Australia, when it was formally constituted as a nation in 1901, was already a nation of readers; nor that most Australians read, and still read, fiction.
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