Roger Osborne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3756540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Osborne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Osborne |
| SIGNATURE | OSBORNE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4131-2548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Versatile Career: Ruth Park’s Novels in the American Marketplace
Park's attraction to America started early in her life.In the closing pages of A Fence Around the Cuckoo, she recalls her ambitions as a young and aspiring journalist: 'I had no plans for Sydney.My ambitions lay elsewhere, in San Francisco, where by design I had established a cobwebby kind of beachhead by selling numbers of illustrated articles on New Zealand and the Pacific Islands to the Examiner' (267).She imagined cruising from New Zealand ac…
Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland
Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland." Australian Historical Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
The Covers Gave Me More Trouble than Anything Else”: Illustrating R. G. Campbell’s Australian Journal , 1926–1955
During R. G. Campbell’s 30-year tenure as editor of the Australian Journal (1926–1955), he drew on the work of many freelance writers and artists. This article identifies some of the major contributors of cover art and illustrations published during Campbell’s editorship of the Australian Journal to provide an expanded view of the cultural networks that converged in the pages of the magazine. Drawing on Campbell’s advice published in The Australi…
This edition howls to heaven to be withdrawn’: The Palmer Abridgement of Joseph Furphy’s *Such is Life
When the abridged English edition of Joseph Furphy's Such is Life appeared on the shelves of Australian booksellers in the middle of 1937, many of Australiaâ s most prominent cultural nationalists directed their outrage at the editor, Vance Palmer. First published in 1903 by the Bulletin Newspaper Company, Such is Life was out-of-print and largely neglected when the London publisher Jonathan Cape arranged for the abridgement. David Walker has sho…
Tropical Gothic: Literary and Creative Works
The eTropic special issue on the theme Tropical Gothic was first conceived in 2017. From the beginning there was a sense of how the theme had a certain resonance. By 2018, the term had appeared as a hashtag in social media for new music album entitled Tropical Gothic.These resonances are important as they reveal the build up of an idea at a particular time. This paper follows a rhizomatic path as it traces Tropical Gothic through the creative wor…
(Re)presenting the “Socialist Core of Furphy’s Vision”: Rigby’s Romance as Typescript, Serial and Book
When Joseph Furphy responded to editorial pressure from the Bulletin Publishing Company to shorten Such is Life to expedite publication, he did so by removing two chapters from the 1898 typescript version and replacing them with much shorter ones. The two chapters he removed took on a life of their own when he revised and expanded them to become The Buln-Buln and the Brolga and Rigby's Romance. To date, little is known about the textual and publi…
Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s
Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s—1940s explores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid twentieth century to a much greater degree than previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational…
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
New essays on the acclaimed Australian Indigenous author's entire body of work, including his novels, short stories, poetry, and his work with Indigenous language and health. Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the …
A National Interest in an International Market: The Circulation of Magazines in Australia During the 1920s
The presence in Australia of English and American magazines has not attracted significant critical attention in histories of magazines or writing. But the defence of imported magazines at a 1930 Tariff Board Inquiry stresses their importance to Australian magazine culture during the 1920s. This paper considers the evidence presented to the Inquiry in conjunction with the magazine holdings of several libraries and a small news- agency. In the comm…
Noel Norman, trans-national magazinist from Lindisfarne, Tasmania
Noel Norman's novels have attracted some critical attention, but little is known about his much longer career as a story writer for popular magazines in England and the United States of America. Writing as 'Louis Kaye', Norman's stories appeared in some of the most popular magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, including Strand Magazine, Blue Book, Collier's Weekly and the Saturday Evening Post. This article reconsiders Norman's career as a 'magazinis…
The Viking Atlas of Evolution
An historical atlas which covers the history and evolution of life on earth, taking a geographical approach to illuminate the spread of species and the varieties of evolution on different continents
The Viking Historical Atlas of the Earth: A Visual Exploration of the Earth's Physical Past
A National Interest in an International Market: The Circulation of Magazines in Australia During the 1920s
The presence in Australia of English and American magazines has not attracted significant critical attention in histories of magazines or writing. But the defence of imported magazines at a 1930 Tariff Board Inquiry stresses their importance to Australian magazine culture during the 1920s. This paper considers the evidence presented to the Inquiry in conjunction with the magazine holdings of several libraries and a small news- agency. In the comm…
Tropical Gothic: Literary and Creative Works
The eTropic special issue on the theme Tropical Gothic was first conceived in 2017. From the beginning there was a sense of how the theme had a certain resonance. By 2018, the term had appeared as a hashtag in social media for new music album entitled Tropical Gothic.These resonances are important as they reveal the build up of an idea at a particular time. This paper follows a rhizomatic path as it traces Tropical Gothic through the creative wor…
(Re)presenting the “Socialist Core of Furphy’s Vision”: Rigby’s Romance as Typescript, Serial and Book
When Joseph Furphy responded to editorial pressure from the Bulletin Publishing Company to shorten Such is Life to expedite publication, he did so by removing two chapters from the 1898 typescript version and replacing them with much shorter ones. The two chapters he removed took on a life of their own when he revised and expanded them to become The Buln-Buln and the Brolga and Rigby's Romance. To date, little is known about the textual and publi…
The Viking Historical Atlas of the Earth: A Visual Exploration of the Earth's Physical Past
The Viking Atlas of Evolution
An historical atlas which covers the history and evolution of life on earth, taking a geographical approach to illuminate the spread of species and the varieties of evolution on different continents
A National Interest in an International Market: The Circulation of Magazines in Australia During the 1920s
The presence in Australia of English and American magazines has not attracted significant critical attention in histories of magazines or writing. But the defence of imported magazines at a 1930 Tariff Board Inquiry stresses their importance to Australian magazine culture during the 1920s. This paper considers the evidence presented to the Inquiry in conjunction with the magazine holdings of several libraries and a small news- agency. In the comm…
Noel Norman, trans-national magazinist from Lindisfarne, Tasmania
Noel Norman's novels have attracted some critical attention, but little is known about his much longer career as a story writer for popular magazines in England and the United States of America. Writing as 'Louis Kaye', Norman's stories appeared in some of the most popular magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, including Strand Magazine, Blue Book, Collier's Weekly and the Saturday Evening Post. This article reconsiders Norman's career as a 'magazinis…
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
New essays on the acclaimed Australian Indigenous author's entire body of work, including his novels, short stories, poetry, and his work with Indigenous language and health. Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the …
Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s
Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s—1940s explores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid twentieth century to a much greater degree than previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational…
Tropical Gothic: Literary and Creative Works
The eTropic special issue on the theme Tropical Gothic was first conceived in 2017. From the beginning there was a sense of how the theme had a certain resonance. By 2018, the term had appeared as a hashtag in social media for new music album entitled Tropical Gothic.These resonances are important as they reveal the build up of an idea at a particular time. This paper follows a rhizomatic path as it traces Tropical Gothic through the creative wor…
(Re)presenting the “Socialist Core of Furphy’s Vision”: Rigby’s Romance as Typescript, Serial and Book
When Joseph Furphy responded to editorial pressure from the Bulletin Publishing Company to shorten Such is Life to expedite publication, he did so by removing two chapters from the 1898 typescript version and replacing them with much shorter ones. The two chapters he removed took on a life of their own when he revised and expanded them to become The Buln-Buln and the Brolga and Rigby's Romance. To date, little is known about the textual and publi…
This edition howls to heaven to be withdrawn’: The Palmer Abridgement of Joseph Furphy’s *Such is Life
When the abridged English edition of Joseph Furphy's Such is Life appeared on the shelves of Australian booksellers in the middle of 1937, many of Australiaâ s most prominent cultural nationalists directed their outrage at the editor, Vance Palmer. First published in 1903 by the Bulletin Newspaper Company, Such is Life was out-of-print and largely neglected when the London publisher Jonathan Cape arranged for the abridgement. David Walker has sho…
The Covers Gave Me More Trouble than Anything Else”: Illustrating R. G. Campbell’s Australian Journal , 1926–1955
During R. G. Campbell’s 30-year tenure as editor of the Australian Journal (1926–1955), he drew on the work of many freelance writers and artists. This article identifies some of the major contributors of cover art and illustrations published during Campbell’s editorship of the Australian Journal to provide an expanded view of the cultural networks that converged in the pages of the magazine. Drawing on Campbell’s advice published in The Australi…
Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland
Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland." Australian Historical Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
A Versatile Career: Ruth Park’s Novels in the American Marketplace
Park's attraction to America started early in her life.In the closing pages of A Fence Around the Cuckoo, she recalls her ambitions as a young and aspiring journalist: 'I had no plans for Sydney.My ambitions lay elsewhere, in San Francisco, where by design I had established a cobwebby kind of beachhead by selling numbers of illustrated articles on New Zealand and the Pacific Islands to the Examiner' (267).She imagined cruising from New Zealand ac…
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