Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 'Preserving the White Race' : Some Australian Women's Literary Responses to the Great War
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Surveys poetry and verse, personal narratives and popular novels written by Australian women about the Great War. Finds as major preoccupations and concerns in this type of literature: fear of threats to their class and race caused by war; fear for the family; glorification of White Australia; concerns about the future of the British Empire.

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    y separately published work icon Australian Literary Studies ALS vol. 12 no. 2 October 1985 Z608209 1985 periodical issue Australian Literature and War 1985 pg. 223-233
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