Bounceability
21st Apr 2024 - Blog
Occasionally when reading early literature, you come across a common word which seems to have a new meaning, though in
What is a canon of literary works? And does it matter anyhow? Is it something purely academic, or could it be useful if time-bound, and collecting a body of historical books which provide an integrated view of a time in history?
Here are some thoughts on a canon of 19th C non-fiction books on New Zealand, from the first in 1807 though to the end of the century. It has been whittled down to about 150 books, some obscure, but with a view worth regarding, others well-known. There is even a graph.
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The literary body-snatcher: Fan-quis and the children of Han
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Charles Toogood Downing was a young surgeon who visited China in the late 1830s, just before the first opium war