Populating the Nation: A Genealogy of Colonial Australian Character Types

这个项目调查了从19世纪中期到第一次世界大战开始，澳大利亚殖民作家所动员的大量人物类型。在澳大利亚的乡村地区，有无数的性格类型被引入到风景中（如流浪汉、选择者、丛林牧师等），但在城市里，也有大量的性格类型，这些性格类型把澳大利亚的大都市变成了一个流动的、复杂的、常常是壮观的社会空间。该项目将印刷和视觉文化中的殖民地人物类型作为国家投资的一个问题进行研究，考虑到他们对快速增长和日益现代化的殖民文化经济的贡献。

This project investigates the vast array of character types mobilised by colonial writers in Australia from the mid-1800s to the beginning of the First World War. Rural Australia saw numerous character types introduced into the landscape (the rouseabout, the selector, the bush parson, and so on), but the cities also saw a proliferation of types that turned metropolitan Australia into a fluid, complex and often spectacular social space. This project examines colonial character types across print and visual culture as a matter of national investment, conceived in terms of their capacity to contribute to a rapidly-growing and increasingly modern colonial cultural economy.