Cirrus@Austlit

'At the turning of the century of 20th, Australia saw a great troubling and disturbing period in her history. On the one hand, this period is when Australian nationalism began to boom in face of the economic depression; on the other hand, this period is when Australian native writers began to write about Australian landscapes, characters and bush. Influenced by the national magazine bulletin, the native writers of Australia represented what Australian bush is really about with realism sketches. In this sense, the novels written at the turning of the the 20th century are bush realism novels and this article is to explore deep into what bush realism is and how it came to being under the context of Australian nationalism.' (220-221)