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Article: Christopher Lee. City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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Christopher Lee. City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination. Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre P, 2004. 272 pp. ISBN 1-9207-3170-9, $26.95.
City Bushman, Christopher Lee's wonderful new contribution to Australian cultural studies, is not a new biography of Henry Lawson, one of Australia's most revered writers, nor is it a work of literary criticism. Rather, City Bushman is a cultural history examining the various forces and interests that have created and maintain Lawson's prominent position within Australian literature and society. Lee begins with a personal introduction describing childhood encounters with Lawson's work, which ...