Nancy L Paxton Nancy L Paxton i(A66215 works by)
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1 From Cosmopolitan Romance to Transnational Fiction : Re-reading Jean Devanny’s Australian Novels Nancy L Paxton , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009; (p. 215-228)
'When Jean Devanny (1894-1962) left New Zealand in 1929 bound for Sydney, she considered Australia 'merely a transit point' and planned to travel on to England, believing it to be 'a more favourable location for a novelist'. Devanny gradually came to accept Australia as her home, as Carole Ferrier argues, because of her 'double commitment' to the Communist Party of Australia and to her development as a writer. While Ferrier's pioneering scholarship and definitive biography offer invaluable insights into Devanny's life and writing, I will suggest another perspective on both by exploring how her experiences in Australia transformed her into a 'transnational' subject. (p.
215)
1 Male Sexuality on the Frontier in D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo Nancy L Paxton , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Windows to the Sun : D.H. Lawrence's Thought-Adventures 2009; (p. 138-164)

'When D.H. Lawrence arrived in Australia in 1922, he defined himself, as Judith Ruderman remindsus, as 'a man without a country'; he had, by this time in his life, taken many bold steps to become a man no longer 'firmly moored in his class, nation, or gender' (Ruderman 2003, 50). Lawrence frequently used gendered terms to describe the tantalizing appeal of crossing the border between the old world and the new, proclaiming, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, for example: 'You've got to know you're a man, and being a man means you must go on alone, ahead of the woman, to break a way through the old world into the new' (2004a, 218). Kangaroo presents Lawrence's first sustained attempt to respond to this call. He begins by describing Richard Lovatt Somer's realization that the old world was 'done for' and his imperative desire to go to 'the newest country, to young Australia' (1994, 13), a desire impelled by many of the same impulses that induced the Lawrences to make a similar journey. Nonetheless, from nearly the first page of this oddly uneven novel, Lawrence draws attention to Somers's English ideas about maleness, friendship, sexual desire, Marriage, power, class politics, and violence, as he describes his protagonist's increasingly more disorienting confrontations with Australian men who embody alternative ideas about male identity.' (p. 138)

1 Modernist Takes on Film in Jean Devanny's First Novels about Australia Nancy L Paxton , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 35 no. 1/2 2009; (p. 150-170)

In this essay, Paxton offers 'a more specifically modernist vantage point on the fiction Devanny wrote about Australia, soon after she moved with her family to Sydney in 1929, by looking more closely at her lesser-known romances, Out of Such Fires (1934) and The Ghost Wife (1935)'. (p 150)

1 y separately published work icon Outside Modernism : In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-30 Lynne Hapgood (editor), Nancy L Paxton (editor), Basingstoke : Macmillan , 2000 Z940769 2000 multi chapter work criticism
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