Books & Empire

Edited by Paul Eggert & Elizabeth Webby
Wagga Wagga, NSW : Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand, 2005

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Book description
Papers of a conference held by the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, in conjunction with the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing at the University of Sydney, 30th January - 1st February, 2003.

The editors have attempted to represent the range of material presented, in terms of fields of study, periods and regions covered. There is a largish number of papers on the links between Britain and her colonies, seen variously through the private and public libraries assembled by settlers in Upper Canada and Tasmania and government officials in Northern India, as well as through the publication in Britain of material relating to Australia during the convict era, through the period of inland exploration, and on to fiction at the end of the nineteenth century. A number of papers, however, deal with the impact of other Imperial powers on colonial print cultures: the French in Vietnam and North Africa, the Japanese Empire of the 1930's, Australia in Papua New Guinea after World War II. There are also fascinating studies of reading and writing in New Zealand from the colonial period through to the twentieth century, based on close examination of a surviving farm library and the diaries kept by and itinerant worker, giving new insights into readers about whom little usually survives.

About the Editors
Paul Eggert is director of the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre at the University of New South Wales at ADFA in Canberra where he is professor of English. He is President of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand and writes in the areas of print culture, editorial theories of the text, and the restoration of historic buildings and paintings.

Elizabeth Webby is Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney and co-editor of the forthcoming A History of the Book in Australia. Volume 1.

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