{"title":"Mixed Blessings: Narratives of Inheritance in Farming and Writing","authors":"","doi":"10.56449/14290996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14290996","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80257320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Injustice of Inherited Wealth","authors":"Fiona Allon","doi":"10.56449/14277109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14277109","url":null,"abstract":"HEN THOMAS PIKETTY PUBLISHED CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (2013) more than one review of the book pointed out that the very near future of extreme inequality he invoked was ‘Jane Austen all over again’. This was more than metaphor: Piketty repeatedly returns to the fictional world of Austen, explaining that novelists like her ‘grasped the hidden contours of wealth and its inevitable implications for the lives of men and women’; that they described the effects of inequality ‘with a verisimilitude and evocative power that no statistical or theoretical analysis can match’ (Piketty 2). It certainly was surprising that this dense magisterial tome of dry economic analysis would be published to such acclaim and become a best-seller; it was even more of a surprise that it would contain an abundance of references to popular culture and literature and in particular the 19th century novels of Henry James, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac and Leo Tolstoy.","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89672804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Intergenerational Justice","authors":"J. Frow","doi":"10.56449/14288664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14288664","url":null,"abstract":"NE OF THE TROPES THAT RUNS THROUGH MANY VICTORIAN NOVELS—THOSE OF Dickens, of Wilkie Collins, of Sheridan Le Fanu, and many others—is the plot device of a will that controls the lives of the heirs, frequently through a codicil that has been kept secret or suppressed and that endangers the life of the one who inherits. In Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas a codicil to her father’s will requires Mary to live with her wicked uncle as a condition of her inheritance; if she dies before she comes of age the uncle will inherit the estate, and that condition then motivates a series of attempts against Mary’s life. In Bleak House the conflicting wills in Jarndyce and Jarndyce drive several generations of claimants to poverty and despair before a newly revealed will closes the case, with almost all of the inheritance swallowed up in legal fees. And in Charles Palliser’s magnificent pastiche of the Victorian novel, The Quincunx, the codicil to a will brings about the prolonged suffering of the hero, the forced prostitution and death of his mother, and the eventual collapse of the estate.","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76067611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Fetherston, E. Potter, Kelly Miller, Devin C. Bowles
{"title":"Seeking Greener Pages: An Analysis of Reader Response to Australian Eco-Crime Fiction","authors":"R. Fetherston, E. Potter, Kelly Miller, Devin C. Bowles","doi":"10.56449/14233338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14233338","url":null,"abstract":"N THEIR WORK ON HOW NARRATIVE MAY HELP AUDIENCES THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT other species, Wojciech Malecki et al. refer to the ‘narrative turn’ within academia and its proliferation of research that addresses how ‘moral intuitions often yield to narrative persuasion’ (2). In other words, many scholars are currently asking whether narratives can persuade readers to reflect on and perhaps reconsider their own moral beliefs. The research presented in this paper follows a similar trajectory in its discussion of the results and possible implications of a reader response study that investigated how Australian readers respond to works of Australian eco-crime fiction that portray non-humans and global ecological issues such as climate change in a local Australian context. Resonant with ‘narrative persuasion’— the idea amongst social scientists that ‘a narrative is a catalyst for perspective change’ (Hamby et al. 114)— we consider the capacity of such texts to possibly engage readers with the plight of non-humans in Australia under the impacts of climate change. This study employed reader response methodology to determine some of the key themes that Australian readers are drawn to when reading Australian eco-crime fiction, with particular emphasis placed on understanding their responses to representations of the non-human and associated environmental issues in these texts. While this study originally focused on literary as well as genre ecofiction, this paper focuses in a more targeted way on the reader responses to Australian","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82957049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intergenerationality, for John Frow","authors":"T. H. Ford","doi":"10.56449/14231671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14231671","url":null,"abstract":"RAISES","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80712424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intergenerational Multispecies Justice: No Longer a Leap Elsewhere","authors":"D. Celermajer, Weighty Concept, L. ., Ooking","doi":"10.56449/14288775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14288775","url":null,"abstract":"USTICE IS A LOFTY AND WEIGHTY CONCEPT. LOOKING BACKWARDS, IT PROMISES THE restoration of a moral order heretofore disrespected and violated; looking forward, the establishment of the institutional conditions in which lives might flourish without fear of arbitrary deprivation and harm. This, at least, is the ideal. In practice, under conditions where the logics of colonialism, capitalism, extractivism and human exceptionalism remain hegemonic, the justice mainstream institutions deliver all too often serves to lend legitimacy of the greatest injustices of our age (Davis et al.). Too often, the lens of contemporary institutional justice renders invisible those who are harmed, not by discrete acts that show up as aberrant against the background of fossil-fuelled and extractive forms of life, but by those normalised forms of life themselves. Future generations of humans, but also current and future generations of beings other than humans are chief amongst them.","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87804456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redeemable Plots","authors":"Alexandra Kingston-Reese","doi":"10.56449/14218283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14218283","url":null,"abstract":"VER THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS, GLOBAL ECONOMIC, INSTITUTIONAL, POLITICAL, AND social disinvestment in the humanities has contributed to what John Guillory has recently called a ‘crisis of legitimation’ (xiii). By overemphasising the political importance of contemporary literary culture, cultural discourse has largely focused on cementing literature’s political agency. Because humanities disciplines, in Guillory’s view, occupy positions of structural weakness, there is no winnable argument about the social relevance of criticism. ‘So long as there are scientists at work on a cure for cancer’, he notes, ‘the humanities will have a nearly insurmountable task in making a case in the public sphere for their great, if less obvious, social benefits’ (109). Feeling themselves, their works, and their institutions to be on shaky ground, critics have fallen into the habit of ‘romanticising’ the power and importance of literary criticism’s ability to advance progressive political positions or debate liberal or democratic functions.1","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81208317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dead Horse Gap: Intergenerational Justice and the Culling of Horses in the Australian Alps","authors":"Julieanne Lamond","doi":"10.56449/14222876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14222876","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88031998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nothing’s More Precious Than a Hole in the Ground","authors":"Amelia Dale","doi":"10.56449/14250504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56449/14250504","url":null,"abstract":"the spiritual and cultural dimensions of this dispossession cannot be overstated) but one","PeriodicalId":43618,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanities Review","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78934909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}