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Writing in hope and fear : literature as politics in postwar Australia

Title
Writing in hope and fear : literature as politics in postwar Australia / John McLaren.
Author
McLaren, John D.
Publication
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Description
ix, 245 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Australian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Authors, Australian > 20th century > Political and social views
  • Politics and literature > Australia > History > 20th century
  • Australia > Politics and government > 1945-
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-234) and index.
Contents
Prologue: The Trials of Robert Close and Frank Hardy -- 1. Modernism and Nationalism: Jindyworobaks, Angry Penguins, Meanjin and other Weird Creatures -- 2. Literary Conflicts and Failed Vision: Overland and the Realist Writers Groups -- 3. The Community of Overland: Lambert, Morrison, Waten, Hewett and Martin -- 4. Conspiring for Freedom: The Australian Association for Cultural Freedom -- 5. The Mission of Quadrant: James McAuley and Voices from the Right -- 6. Cold War on Writing: Attacks on Writers and Struggles for Funds -- 7. Proprietors at War: New Journalism in the Lucky Country -- 8. New Little Magazines: Religious Prospect and Secular Dissent -- 9. Opening the Pages: The Subsidized Journals, 1964-72 -- 10. From Rhetoric to Eloquence: The Generation of '68.
ISBN
  • 0521561469 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0521567564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
95051531
OCLC
ocm33983576
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries