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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism
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'This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its waterway in the context of Australian modernism and modernity in the interwar period. Then as now, Sydney Harbour is both an ecological wonder and ladened with economic, cultural, historical and aesthetic significance for the city by its shores. In Australia’s earliest canon of urban fiction, writers including Christina Stead, Dymphna Cusack, Eleanor Dark, Kylie Tennant and M. Barnard Eldershaw explore the myth and the reality of the city ‘built on water’. Mapping Sydney via its watery and littoral places, these writers trace impacts of empire, commercial capitalism, global trade and technology on the city, while drawing on estuarine logics of flow and blockage, circulation and sedimentation to innovate modes of writing temporally, geographically and aesthetically specific to Sydney’s provincial modernity. Contributing to the growing field of oceanic or aqueous studies, Sydney and its Waterway and Australian Modernism shows the capacity of water and human-water relations to make both generative and disruptive contributions to urban topography and narrative topology.'

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    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Palgrave Macmillan ,
      2021 .
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      Extent: 217p.p.
      Description: illus. (b & w)
      Note/s:
      • Published 2nd February 2021.
      ISBN: 9783030644253 (hbk), 9783030644260 (ebk)

Works about this Work

Meg Brayshaw, Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism Sarah Galletly , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , December vol. 22 no. 2 2022;

— Review of Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism Meg Brayshaw , 2021 multi chapter work criticism
'This study provides an engaging and persuasive exploration of the myths and realities of “Sydney’s connection to its waterway” through a close examination of five novels from the 1930s and 40s written by female authors (7). Each chapter offers a case study that considers how these novels explore the complexities of urban modernity alongside a wide range of literary, cultural and social “currents” of the interwar period. Across this study as a whole, Meg Brayshaw eloquently argues for the value of more regional or localised studies of modernism that facilitate understandings of modernity “as a phenomenon that is both situated and transcalar, conceptual and embodied” (15).' (Introduction) 
Meg Brayshaw, Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism Sarah Galletly , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , December vol. 22 no. 2 2022;

— Review of Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism Meg Brayshaw , 2021 multi chapter work criticism
'This study provides an engaging and persuasive exploration of the myths and realities of “Sydney’s connection to its waterway” through a close examination of five novels from the 1930s and 40s written by female authors (7). Each chapter offers a case study that considers how these novels explore the complexities of urban modernity alongside a wide range of literary, cultural and social “currents” of the interwar period. Across this study as a whole, Meg Brayshaw eloquently argues for the value of more regional or localised studies of modernism that facilitate understandings of modernity “as a phenomenon that is both situated and transcalar, conceptual and embodied” (15).' (Introduction) 
Last amended 14 Jun 2021 15:33:22
Subjects:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Sydney Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales,
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