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Article: Rolf Boldrewood: A Life.(Review)
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- Quadrant
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- March 1, 2001
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Roll Boldrewood: A Life, by Paul de Serville; Melbourne University Press, 2000, $65.95.
AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE has been conveniently divided up into two opposing camps, the nationalists who repudiated their British origin, and the Anglo-Australians who acknowledged it. Rolf Boldrewood's Robbery under Arms is undisputed as an Australian classic, but it presents one of the great mysteries of Australian literature. Why is it so much better than all Boldrewood's other novels, and why so different? His other novels promote conservative, Anglo-Australian values, but this one has bushranging as its subject, which situates it more in the opposite camp. By producing new ...