Marcus Clarke
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
Few figures in nineteenth-century Australian literature burn as brightly — or as briefly — as Marcus Clarke, the brilliant, mercurial writer whose turbulent life and groundbreaking work defined the colony's literary conscience. Brian Elliott's authoritative biography chronicles the life of this English-born author who arrived in Melbourne in 1863 and swiftly became one of its most vital cultural forces, best known for his harrowing convict masterpiece For the Term of His Natural Life, a work that seared the reality of Australia's penal past into the national imagination. Elliott reconstructs Clarke's world with meticulous scholarship, tracing his subject's rise through journalism, bohemian literary circles, and the colonial theatre scene, against the backdrop of a young nation wrestling with its own identity. Elliott's portrait is as much a study of place and era as it is of a single man, illuminating the formative tensions of colonial Melbourne — its ambitions, its contradictions, and its hunger for a culture it could call its own. Written with the precision of a scholar and the sensitivity of a fellow literary man, Marcus Clarke stands as an indispensable work for anyone seeking to understand the roots of Australian literature. The question Elliott leaves the reader to ponder is a haunting one: what more might Clarke have achieved had he not died destitute at just thirty-five?
Author: Brian Elliott
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
Few figures in nineteenth-century Australian literature burn as brightly — or as briefly — as Marcus Clarke, the brilliant, mercurial writer whose turbulent life and groundbreaking work defined the colony's literary conscience. Brian Elliott's authoritative biography chronicles the life of this English-born author who arrived in Melbourne in 1863 and swiftly became one of its most vital cultural forces, best known for his harrowing convict masterpiece For the Term of His Natural Life, a work that seared the reality of Australia's penal past into the national imagination. Elliott reconstructs Clarke's world with meticulous scholarship, tracing his subject's rise through journalism, bohemian literary circles, and the colonial theatre scene, against the backdrop of a young nation wrestling with its own identity. Elliott's portrait is as much a study of place and era as it is of a single man, illuminating the formative tensions of colonial Melbourne — its ambitions, its contradictions, and its hunger for a culture it could call its own. Written with the precision of a scholar and the sensitivity of a fellow literary man, Marcus Clarke stands as an indispensable work for anyone seeking to understand the roots of Australian literature. The question Elliott leaves the reader to ponder is a haunting one: what more might Clarke have achieved had he not died destitute at just thirty-five?