Struggle and Storm The Life and Death of Francis Adams

by Tasker, Meg

• ISBN13: 9780522849462
• ISBN10: 0522849466
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-13
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Summary

Biography of Francis Adams (1862-1893), a poet, novelist, social analyst and journalist who moved to Australia from England in 1884. Describes his connection with Australian social and political developments in the years leading up to Federation in his role as spokesman for the Australian nationalism of the 1890s. Explores the pleasures of biography and the problem of how to write a literary life a hundred years later. Author is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of Ballarat. Previous titles include 'Francis Adams: A research guide' and an edition of Francis Adams's 'John Webb's End'.

Author Biography

Dr Meg Tasker is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Ballarat. Her publications include Francis Adams: A Research Guide; an edition of Francis Adams's John Webb's End; and entries on Adams for The 1890s: An Encyclopaedia of British Literature, Art and Culture; The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. 3; and the New Dictionary of National Biography.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
A Textual Reincarnation?	2	(4)
``The production of yet another human caricature, whether of angel or devil or both'	6	(3)
Grave Beginnings	9	(18)
Andrew and Bertha	13	(7)
Mrs Leith-Adams, `literary lady'	20	(7)
Education of an Attache	27	(14)
Paris and London	33	(3)
The Trouble with Mother, or the Bond of Wedlock	36	(5)
A Sea Change	41	(8)
First Signs of Socialism	45	(4)
Australia Felix	49	(14)
The Family Plot	63	(7)
'Epics are ``off'' just now'	70	(15)
Three Others: Edith, Asia, and Madeline Brown	85	(13)
Edith	85	(4)
Asia	89	(6)
Madeline Brown	95	(3)
Bloody Revolution	98	(6)
Songs of the Army of the Night	104	(25)
Reception of Songs	106	(5)
Republication of Songs	111	(3)
The Dilemma of the Middle-Class Radical	114	(2)
The Australian Labour Movement	116	(4)
Revision and Reverie: Dedication `To Edith'	120	(3)
'The Mass of Christ'	123	(6)
Election I888: Divided Loyalties	129	(15)
Edith in Eden, and Brothers in Arms	144	(17)
Red Hill and Rosalie	144	(1)
Harry	145	(5)
W. M. Rossetti	150	(11)
Return to England: Writing Australia	161	(13)
Literary Work 1891-1893	174	(11)
Egypt	185	(9)
An Overdetermined Death	194	(11)
Heart Easers	205	(6)
Mrs Edith Adams
The Rest is not Silence	211	(16)
Beautiful and Beneficent Death	211	(5)
Posthumous Publications	216	(6)
Socialism, Science and Art	222	(5)
The Broken Column	227	(3)
Notes	230	(15)
Bibliography	245	(6)
Index	251