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，澳大利亚殖民作家动员的大量人物类型。澳大利亚乡村的风景中引入了许多类型的人物(rouseAbout，选择者，灌木丛牧师，等等)，但城市也看到了类型的激增，将澳大利亚的大都市变成了一个流动的、复杂的、往往是壮观的社交空间。这个项目考察了印刷品和视觉文化中的殖民人物类型，这是一个国家投资问题，是根据它们为快速增长和日益现代化的殖民文化经济做出贡献的能力而构思的。

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.