Machine derived contents note: Part I. In the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Lost Child: 1. The lost child introduced: Henry Kingsley's The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn -- 'Come let us sing of this fair child heroic': Jane Duff and her brothers -- Alfred Boulter A Monument at Daylesford -- Marcus Clarke's Lost Children -- The Case of Clara Crosbie -- Frederick McCubbin's Images of the Lost Child -- Fairytales of the 1890s -- The Bush Balladists' -- Turn Mrs Praed and the Punishment of Mrs Tregaskiss -- Henry Lawson and 'The Babies in the Bush' -- Joseph Furphy's 'Perfect Young-Australian' -- Part II. In the Twentieth Century: The Child Abandoned: In the theatre -- In fiction -- Book into film -- True stories
Summary
"From stories of colonial children lost in the bush to the recent cases of Graeme Thorne, Azaria Chamberlain and Jaidyn Leskie, the figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's original and sometimes shocking study, The Country of Lost Children, traces this ambivalent and disturbing history."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis
Aboriginal children
Anxiety
Art
Australian literature
Child abandonment
Child migrants
Child welfare
Federal issue
Films
Literary criticism
Missing persons
National identity
State issue
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-205) and index
