Middlebrow Modernism

Middlebrow Modernism

Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction

Melinda J. Cooper

Sydney University Press

10/2022

290

Mole

Inglês

9781743328569

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; Middlebrow modernism: Negotiating settler-colonial modernity, regional cosmopolitanism and liberal humanism; "Whether you deal in books or peanut brittle": Writing for the popular market in Eleanor Dark's 1920s magazine fiction and Slow Dawning (1932); "A masterpiece of camouflage": Australian modernism and Prelude to Christopher (1934); "Like the lens of a camera": Commercial culture, settler belonging and middlebrow modernism in Return to Coolami (1936); "The everlasting voice of man": Modernist aesthetic utopianism and Sun Across the Sky (1937); "The vast, the bewildering, the menacing problems of all humanity": Regional cosmopolitanism and the political middlebrow in Waterway (1938); "An exercise in imagination": The limits of empathy in The Timeless Land (1941); Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Australian literature;book history;textual criticism;cultural history;Eleanor Dark;modernism;settler colonialism;middlebrow;cosmopolitanism;regional modernity;transnationalism;interwar fiction;mid-century