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'Central to developments in Australian literature during the period from the end of Second World War until the mid-1960s - what might be called the 'long 1950s' - was the emergence of the kind of modernist novel written by Patrick White as the benchmark of modern fiction. This was the outcome of a struggle among opinion-makers in the literary field, which during this period came to be dominated for the first time by academic critics. They, by and large, favoured the new forms of postwar modernism and rejected that literary nationalism which had drawn the loyalty of most influential writers during the 1930s and 940s.' (Author's introduction)
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Sex and the City : New Novels by Women and Middlebrow Culture at Mid-Century
Australian Literary Studies
Australian Literary Studies
Subjects:
- The Four Novels of Patrick White 1956 single work criticism
- In a Critical Condition : Reading Australian Literature 1984 single work criticism
- Fabricating the Self : The Fictions of Jessica Anderson 1996 single work criticism
- Elizabeth Harrower's Novels : A Survey 1970 single work criticism
- An Ordinary Lunacy 1963 single work novel
- Exiles at Home : Australian Women Writers 1925-1945 1981 single work criticism biography
- The Censor's Library 2012 single work criticism
- Down in the City 1957 single work novel
- Bobbin Up : A Novel 1959 single work novel
- Down by the Dockside 1963 single work novel
- Nine Lives : Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark 2011 selected work biography
- Writing Round the Edges : A Selective Memoir 2003 single work autobiography
- The Delinquents 1962 single work novel
- Obscenity, Blasphemy, Sedition : Censorship in Australia 1961 single work criticism
- Modernity and the Gendering of Middlebrow Book Culture in Australia 2011 single work criticism
- The Mystery of the Missing Middlebrow, or, The C(o)urse of Good Taste 2004 single work criticism
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