%0 Online Multimedia %A Kendal, Zachary %D 2018 %T The Australia to Come: Exploring nineteenth-century visions of Australia's future [presentation slides] %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/presentation/The_Australia_to_Come_Exploring_nineteenth-century_visions_of_Australia_s_future_presentation_slides_/6807509 %R 10.26180/5b46b80e567c3 %2 https://bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/files/12380243 %K Rare Books %K Monash University Library %K Australian utopian literature %K Australian utopianism %K Literary studies %K Nineteenth-century literature %K library staff %K Library annual report %K Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) %X What kinds of futures did nineteenth-century Australian writers imagine? From stories looking forward to better, utopian societies, to those warning against dark, dystopian turns, this body of literature engages with a broad range of contemporary Australian issues. Join Zachary Kendal, a librarian in Rare Books at Monash University, as he explores the diversity, and strangeness, of these speculative fictions.

Presented on Tuesday 3 July 2018 at the Monash Conference Centre as part of Melbourne Rare Book Week.
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