Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Drawing on a wide range of sources - poetry, fiction, newspaper reports, paintings and films - The Country of Lost Children analyses the cultural and moral implications of the figure of the lost child in Australian history. At its core are confronting and often troubling questions about childhood itself.
Synopsis
Traces the ambivalent and disturbing images of the figure of the lost child in Australia's history and imagination.
Table of Contents
I IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY - DISCOVERING THE LOST CHILD The Lost Child Introduced: Henry Kingsley's The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn 'Come let us sing of this fair child heroic': Jane Duff and her Brothers Alfred Boulter A Monument at Daylesford Marcus Clarke's Lost Children The Case of Clara Crosbie Frederick McCubbin's Images of the Lost Child Fairytales of the 1890s The Bush Balladists' Turn Mrs Praed and the Punishment of Mrs Tregaskiss Henry Lawson and 'The Babies in the Bush' Joseph Furphy's 'Perfect Young-Australian' II IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - THE CHILD ABANDONED In the Theatre In Fiction Book into Film True Stories