期刊名称：Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
印刷版ISSN：1447-8986
电子版ISSN：1833-6027
出版年度：2007
卷号：6
页码：120-128
出版社：Association for the Study of Australian Literature
摘要：The four volumes of the Gale Group’s enormous Dictionary of Literary
Biography (DLB) that focus on Australian writers 1788–2000 represent a
magnificent achievement for all contributors, but more particularly for the
single editor of all four volumes, Dr Selina Samuels. Read as a single work
they stand alongside such landmark volumes as H. M. Green’s A History of
Australian Literature (1961), The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
(1985), The Penguin New Literary History of Australia (1988), The Cambridge
Companion to Australian Literature (2001), and The History of the Book In
Australia (2001) series, in representing an outstanding and long-lasting
print resource for the study of Australian literature. (All but the Green
also represent Herculean tasks in the process of selecting, commissioning,
collecting and editing contributions from multiple authors: as one who is
a beginner at the professionally thankless role of editor, I stand in awe of
Dr Samuels’s accomplishment in both endurance and meticulous attention
to detail; I caught only one editorial oversight, repeated information about
