GUEST EDITOR Benjamin Penny
EDITORIAL ADVISORS
Tony Bennett, Open University, UK; Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago; James K. Chandler, University of Chicago; W. Robert Connor, National Humanities Center, USA; Ian Donaldson, The Australian National University; Saul Dubow, University of Sussex; Valerie I. J. Flint; University of Hull; Christopher Forth, The Australian National University; Debjani Ganguly, The Australian National University; Margaret R. Higonnet, University of Connecticut; Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge; Lynn Hunt, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Jacobus, Cornell University; W. J. F. Jenner, SOAS, The University of London; Peter Jones, University of Edinburgh; E. Ann Kaplan, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University; David MacDougall, The Australian National University; Iain McCalman, The Australian National University; Fergus Millar, University of Oxford; Anthony Milner, The Australian National University; Howard Morphy, The Australian National University; Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Tessa Morris-Suzuki, The Australian National University; Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago; Paul Patton, University of New South Wales; Benjamin Penny, The Australian National University; Paul Pickering, The Australian National University; Monique Skidmore, The Australian National University; Carolyn Strange, The Australian National University; Mandy Thomas, The Australian National University; Caroline Turner, The Australian National University; James Walter, Monash University; Iain Wright, The Australian National University.
Humanities Research is a refereed journal published irregularly by the Humanities Research Centre and the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at The Australian National University. It is distributed free to national and international libraries and from 2005 is available in electronic format from
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VOL XII, NO. 1, 2005 ISSN: 1440-0669