| Description |
viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
ERA Collection
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: Contemporary Australian Writers in Britain / M.J. Hyland |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Cringing, Whingeing, Crying, Strutting -- Australian Writers in Britain 1823-2012 -- ch. 2 Early Expatriate Writers in Britain / Gilbert Murray -- ch. 3 Icons / Martin Boyd -- ch. 4 Crime Writers / Helen Simpson -- ch. 5 War and Domestic Fronts / P.L. Travers -- ch. 6 Love among the Daffodils -- Australian Romancers Abroad, 1890s-1950s / W.N. Willis -- ch. 7 The Fateful Consequences of Expatriation -- Art, Craft and Wealth / Morris West -- ch. 8 Suburbs of the Mind / Mrs Everage -- ch. 9 Christina Stead's England and the Spectacular Social Novel -- ch. 10 Arguments with England / Clive James -- ch. 11 English Lessons and Other Unnatural Passions / Madeleine St John -- ch. 12 Critics and Reformers / Geoffrey Robertson -- ch. 13 ̀In Bed with the English' -- Germaine Greer's Life in Writing -- ch. 14 ̀Hungry Ghosts' -- The Fiction of Susan Johnson and the Expatriated Self -- ch. 15 ̀The Ex Factor' -- |
| Summary |
Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender explore the lives and creative work of Australia's many expatriate writers living and working in Britain since the early nineteenth century. They contest the notion of Australia as an 'import culture' and show Australians exporting literary talent to Britain and further afield from 1820 until the present. Stories of the lives and work of writers working in all genres, from romance and crime to contemporary literary fiction, are interweaved in a collective biography |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-262) |
| Subject |
Australian literature.
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Authors, Australian -- England.
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Expatriate authors -- England.
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| Author |
Pender, Anne, 1962-
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| LC no. |
2012518764 |
| ISBN |
9781921867941 (paperback) |
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