
While the Billy Boils
The Original Newspaper Versions
Henry Lawson(Author)
Paul Eggert(Editor)
Sydney University Press
Published on 3. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
391 pages
978-1-74332-009-9 (ISBN)
Description
Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888 onwards were gathered in his collection While the Billy Boils (Angus & Robertson, 1896). Lawson was not responsible for their ordering and he had to give ground on their texts, especially on his idiosyncratic presentation of wordings that helped to breathe life into his characters and situations. The present edition dismantles the fait accompli of 1896 by presenting the individual items in the chronological order of their first publication and with their original newspaper texts. This will allow a new appreciation of Lawson's writing, one that is attentive to his developing
powers.
The edition also facilitates a close study of Lawson's collaboration with the producers of the collection in 1896, in particular with his copy-editor Arthur
W. Jose and publisher George Robertson. Facsimile images (available online) of the printer's copy that they prepared for While the Billy Boils supplement the edition's listing of the alterations that each of them made, revealing the textual history of each story or sketch.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
A5: Tankobon
Illustrations
7 b&w ill., 1 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
578 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-74332-009-9 (9781743320099)
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Persons
"Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's ""greatest short story writer"".He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson."