Snakes in the twentieth-century Australian imagination

Title: Snakes in the twentieth-century Australian imagination
Creator: Cushing, Nancy; Markwell, Kevin
Relation: Venom: Fear, Fascination and Discovery p. 51-56
Publisher: Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: In the early decades of the twentieth century, contact between Australians and the snakes with which they shared their newly federated country was more frequent than it became in later, more urbanised decades. About half of the Australian population lived in capital cities, but with the exception of Sydney, Hobart and Brisbane, these were sprawling oversized country towns where much of the population lived in suburban areas which provided good habitat for snakes. Ongoing encounters fuelled the anxiety surrounding snakes that had developed in the colonial period and it was reinforced in the press, oral storytelling and children's books like May Gibbs' Snugglepot and Cuddlepie series.
Subject: snakes; Australian imagination; twentieth century
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341529
Identifier: uon:28762
Identifier: ISBN:9780734048349
Language: eng

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