Christopher Lee, city bushman : Henry Lawson and the Australian imagination

A review of Christopher Lee's 'City bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian imagination' Henry Lawson is, indubitably, an iconic figure in Australian literary and cultural history, and Chris LeChristopher Lee’s City Bushman is a study of how that status was achieved and posthumously developed. While attention is paid to his literary reputation, and to the careful study and analysis of various statues and festivals produced in Lawson’s honour, the real interest of this book is in analysing the power relations and cultural transactions implicit in the public uses of Lawson.C