| Description |
1 online resource (2480 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Te Horeta ['Taniwha of Coromandel'], 'Cook's Visit' (1852; 1862); James Cook, from The Voyage of the 'Endeavour' (1769); John Savage, from Some Account of New Zealand (1807); Poetic Projections; Anna Seward, from 'Elegy on Captain Cook' (1780); Henry Headley, from 'An Invocation to Melancholy: a Fragment' (1786); Missionaries, Whalers And Pakeha Maori; Thomas Kendall, Letter to Josiah Pratt (1818; 1820); Winthrop Mackworth Praed, from Australasia (1823); Anonymous, 'Come All You Tonguers' (c. 1830) |
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James 'Worser' Heberley, from 'Reminiscences' (1837-40)F.E. Maning, from Old New Zealand (1863); The Uncultured Shore; Contact; Declaration of Independence of New Zealand (1835); The Treaty of Waitangi (1840); William Colenso, 'The Authentic and Genuine History of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi' (1890); From The Journal of Ensign Best (1837-41); Edward Gibbon Wakefield, from A Letter from Sydney (1829); Isabella E. Aylmer, from Distant Homes (1862); Thomas Campbell, 'Song of the Emigrants to New Zealand' (1839); Thomas Bracken, 'New Zealand Hymn' (1876) |
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Robert Browning, from 'Waring' (1842)Anne Brontë, from Agnes Grey (1847); The World To Hand; Mary Taylor, Letter to Charlotte Brontë (1848); John Barr of Craigilee, 'New Zealand Comforts' (1861); William Golder, from 'Thoughts on the Wairarapa' (1854); Anonymous, 'Original Lines', from the Daily Southern Cross (1848); Samuel Butler, from Erewhon, or, Over the Range (1872); Anonymous, 'Original Poetry', from the Daily Southern Cross (1843); Alfred Domett, from Ranolf and Amohia (1872); Joshua Henry Kirby, from Henry Ancrum: A Tale of the Last War in New Zealand (1872); War |
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H. Butler Stoney, from Taranaki: A Tale of the War (1861)Wiremu Tamihana Tarapipipi Te Waharoa, Letter to His Excellency the Governor from the Runanga assembled at Ngaruawahia, from the Taranaki Herald (1861); Preservationism; George Grey, Preface to Polynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, as Furnished by their Priests and Chiefs (1855); George Grey, 'The Children of Heaven and Earth: Ko Nga Tama a Rangi', from Polynesian Mythology (1855); Wiremu Te Rangikaheke, Letter to Prince Alfred, from the Daily Southern Cross (1867); Colonial Romance |
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Imagined WorldsTreaties And Declarations; Colonial; William Pember Reeves, 'The Passing of the Forest' (1898); Blanche Baughan, 'A Bush Section' (1908); 'General Hints on Gardening', from Yates' Gardening Guide for Australia and New Zealand (1897); Katherine Mansfield, 'The Woman at the Store' (1912); Katherine Mansfield, from The Notebooks (1907); George Phipps Williams and W.P. [William Pember] Reeves, 'An Old Chum on New Zealand Scenery' (1889); Jessie Mackay, 'Poet and Farmer' (1891); Politics; Kate Sheppard, 'Ten Reasons Why the Women of New Zealand Should Vote' (1888) |
| Summary |
From the earliest records of exploration and encounter to the globalized, multicultural present, this compilation features New Zealand's major writing, from Polynesian mythology to the Yates' Garden Guide, from Allen Curnow to Alice Tawhai, and from Wiremu Te Rangikaheke's letters to Katherine Mansfield's notebooks. Including fiction, nonfiction, letters, speeches, novels, stories, comics, and songs, this imaginative selection provides new paths into New Zealand writing and culture |
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Arthur H. Adams, 'The New Woman' (1899) |
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New Zealand literature.
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New Zealand literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Australian & Oceanian.
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New Zealand literature
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| SUBJECT |
New Zealand -- Literary collections
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New Zealand
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| Genre/Form |
Literature
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Literary collections
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literature.
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Littérature.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Stafford, Jane, 1951- editor.
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Williams, Mark, 1951- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781775581666 |
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1775581667 |
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