Rachael Weaver

Biographic Data

ID3815779
NAMERachael Weaver
GIVEN NAMESRachael
FAMILY NAMEWeaver
SIGNATUREWEAVER R
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0001-6824-5168
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Irish Republicanism and the Colonial Australian Bushranger Narrative

    Open AccessK Gelder, Rachael D Weaver et al.ARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies2021Cited by: 1References: 2

    This article examines a range of colonial Australian Irish bushranger narratives in terms of their investments in revolutionary republicanism, arguing that these become increasingly contested and compromised over time. Beginning with the anonymously published novel Rebel Convicts (1858), it looks at how the fate of transported Irish revolutionaries is imagined in relation to colonial settlement and the convict system. It then turns to Ned Kelly’s…

  • The Australian Kangaroo Hunt Novel (1830–1858) as *Bildungsroman

    Open AccessK Gelder, Rachael D Weaver et al.ARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies2019Cited by: 1

    In Australia – and no doubt in other outposts of empire – hunting provided a rite of passage for ambitious young men to learn about local conditions and establish their colonial credentials. This article argues that the kangaroo hunt narrative therefore operated as a kind of colonial bildungsroman or novel of education. It examines three kangaroo hunt novels written by women who had in fact never travelled to Australia. The first is Sarah Porter’…

  • Literary Aspiration and the Papers of William Gosse Hay

    Open AccessRachael D Weaver, Rachael WeaverARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies2018Cited by: 1

    This article sets out to explore the literary aspirations and career of the early post-federation Australian writer William Gosse Hay through the extensive collection of personal papers he left behind him. Hay was born into an affluent Adelaide family in 1875, and attended Melbourne Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, before marrying and settling down to a reclusive life in the Adelaide foothills to begin writing full time. He eventual…

  • Towards a Genealogy of Minor Colonial Australian Character Types

    K Gelder, Rachael D Weaver et al.ARTICLEInterventions2015

    The business of colonization is often understood in terms of global frameworks, large-scale movements and top-down, ‘abstract’ perspectives; in which case, the turn to minor characters in the colonized world might seem almost like an act of bad faith. It runs the risk of breaking open stable, overarching categories, like the ‘white man’ – which, as minor characters are introduced, sometimes struggles to retain its ascendancy. This essay pursues t…

  • Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

    Rachael D Weaver, Rachael WeaverARTICLEComparative Literature Studies2013

    In Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Alison Rudd explores the role that the Gothic has played in the literature of the four different settler nations named in the title—elaborating the many ways in which their colonial legacies have opened the way to hauntings, spatial dislocations, repressions, and anxieties that are synonymous with the genre. As Rudd's survey of the field shows, this is familia…

  • Colonial Violence and Forgotten Fiction

    Open AccessRachael D Weaver, Rachael WeaverARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies2009

    The focus of this essay is â on excavating short fiction built around representation of frontier conflictâ (33). The short fictions of colonial frontier violence â seem an appropriate means for reading otherwise unwritten events, and folding them into a Gothicised account of the colonial Australian sceneâ (51)

  • Reflecting the Detectives: Crime Fiction and the New Journalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia

    Open AccessRachael D Weaver, Rachael WeaverARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies2005Cited by: 1

    Examines patterns in the relationship between newspaper accounts of sensational crimes and crime fiction published in the late 1880s

  • Participation in Conferences, Treaties, and Warfare in the European System, 1816-1915

    Open AccessJ Faber, Rachael WeaverARTICLEJournal of Conflict Resolution1984Cited by: 4References: 3

    Intergovernmental cooperation in Europe has been operationalized by the number of participants in intergovernmental conferences and treaties. These data have been decomposed into two groups, one group containing the number of participants in conferences and treaties on war-related issues and the second containing the same data on peace-related issues. By applying time series analysis to these data sets and to data sets containing the number of pa…