It argues that these two, contrasting, evocations of Melbourne’s past suggest the ways in which neo-Victorian representations of the colonial city construct it as doubly palimpsestic: inscribed upon it are not only the vestigial remains of its own past shape but traces, too, of the grand European city it was built to imitate. It suggests that their depictions of the city are drawn from the material traces still visible in vestigial form today, and from previous representations of the nineteenth–century city, drawing on literary images not only of Melbourne itself, but also of London, particularly as it is represented in neo-Victorian fiction. McCann’s novel, The White Body of Evening (2002). This article discusses the representation of colonial Melbourne in Robyn Annear’s creative nonfiction, Bearbrass (1995), and A.L.
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