The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety

by Peter Pierce

Overview

The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's original and sometimes shocking study The Country of Lost Children traces this ambivalent and disturbing history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from poetry, fiction and newspaper reports to paintings and films, The Country of Lost Children analyzes the cultural and moral implications of the lost child in Australian history and illuminates a crucial aspect of our present condition. At its core are confronting, often troubling, questions about childhood itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521594400
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/07/1999
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.33(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. In the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Lost Child: 1. The lost child introduced: Henry Kingsley's The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn; 2. 'Come let us sing of this fair child heroic': Jane Duff and her brothers; 3. Alfred Boulter A Monument at Daylesford; 4. Marcus Clarke's Lost Children; 5. The case of Clara Crosbie; 6. Frederick McCubbin's Images of the Lost Child; 7. Fairytales of the 1890s; 8. The bush balladists' turn; 9. Mrs Praed and the punishment of Mrs Tregaskiss; 10. Henry Lawson and 'The Babies in the Bush'; 11. Joseph Furphy's 'Perfect Young-Australian'; Part II. In the Twentieth Century: The Child Abandoned: 1. In the theatre; 2. In fiction; 3. Book into film; 4. True stories; Works consulted; Index.