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Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by.

My reading of Voss challenges existing scholarship on White’s novel, which tends to see Voss either as a contribution to the discourse of Australian national identity or as a work interested in ahistorical, mythological self-realization for the two protagonists, Ulrich Voss and Laura Trevelyan. Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a nave young woman. In so doing, Voss exposes the tensions and contradictions inherent in settler narratives more generally and shows their reliance on social, cultural, and textual models imported from Britain, primary among them rural domesticity and the pastoral. There is Palfreyman, an ornithologist and a Christian, Turner, a labourer and the spirited, young Ralph Angus, a local landowner known to Bonner. Although they have met only on a few occasions, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. contests these narratives, which began to emerge in the nineteenth century that forms the setting of the novel and were still current in the mid-twentieth century when it was written. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a nave young woman. Depending on the study guide provider (SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc. I argue that, while seemingly adopting the elements of Australian narratives of exploration and settlement, White’s Neo-Victorian approach in fact. This article reads Patrick White’s 1957 novel Voss as an early example of Neo-Victorian fiction, a relatively recent but critically well-established category of postwar and contemporary fiction that has not yet been deployed with reference to Voss.