Chain Letters - Softcover

Lucy, Frost; , Maxwell-Stewart; Hamish

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0522849776 ISBN 13: 9780522849776

Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This is the first book to apply new academic understandings of the convict transportation system to explore the lives of individual convicts. In searching for the convict voice, each chapter is a detective story in miniature, either an exercise in discovering the identity behind a particular account or a piecing together of a convict life from the scattered fragments of a tale. Many issues of great contemporary interest arise from these stories, including the multicultural nature of Australian colonial society and, above all, the importance of love and hope.

About this title

About the Author:

Lucy Frost is a professor of English at the University of Tasmania. Her research is primarily in colonial Australian studies. She lives in Hobart, Tasmania.Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is a research fellow in history and classics at the University of Tasmania. He has published many articles and chapters on convict transportation to Australia. He lives in Hobart, Tasmania.

Synopsis:

In Chain Letters, each chapter is a mini-detective story, either a search for the identity behind a particular account, or an attempt to piece a convict life together from scattered fragments of a tale. Issues of great contemporary interest arise from these stories, including the multicultural nature of Australian colonial society and, above all, the importance of love and hope.

About this edition

• Publisher: Melbourne University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0522849776
• ISBN 13: 9780522849776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272