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- Title
Bob's Dreaming: Playing with Reader Expectations in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda.
- Authors
Ryan-Fazilleau, Sue
- Abstract
Discusses the conceptualization of the Victorian era in Australian history as depicted in the book "Oscar and Lucinda," by Peter Carey. Literary approach adopted by Carey to provoke awareness of the distress of the subject who is marginalised by imperialist discourse; Elements of Victorian novel applied by the author in his book; Reason of a writer for taking the risk of frustrating reader expectations.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIAN history, 1788-1900; OSCAR &; Lucinda (Book); CAREY, Peter, 1943-; FICTION writing; IMPERIALISM in literature; 19TH century English literature
- Publication
Rocky Mountain Review of Language & Literature (0361-1299), 2005, Vol 59, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0361-1299
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.2307/3657433