Middlebrow Modernism : Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction.

Eleanor Dark (1901-1985) is one of Australia's most significant novelists, and her work is currently enjoying a revival of critical interest. This book will provide the first sole-authored critical survey of Dark's fiction to be published in over four decades. Focusing on Dark's ten n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, Melinda J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2022.
Colección:Sydney studies in Australian literature.
Temas:
Dark, Eleanor, > 1901-1985 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dark, Eleanor, > 1901-1985.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Half title
  • Title
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction Middlebrow Modernism: Negotiating Settler-colonial Modernity, Regional Cosmopolitanism and Liberal Humanism
  • Eleanor Dark and Interwar Australia
  • Regional Cosmopolitanism
  • Settler-colonial Modernity
  • Eleanor Dark and the Transnational Turn
  • Relational and Uneven
  • Middlebrow Modernism
  • Middlebrow Modernism in Interwar Australia
  • Mapping Eleanor Dark's Middlebrow Modernism
  • "Whether You Deal in Books or Peanut Brittle": Writing for the Popular Market in Eleanor Dark's 1920s Magazine Fiction and Slow Dawning (1932)
  • Reframing Eleanor Dark's 1920s Fiction
  • Technological Modernity
  • The Modern Woman
  • "The Ladies' Circulating Library": Eleanor Dark and Her Father
  • "My Unspeakable Slow Dawning"
  • A New Kind of Citizen: The Middle-class, Professional Woman
  • The Changing Nature of Marriage and Romance
  • Valerie and the "Army of Women": The Individual and the Collective
  • The Technical Expert
  • Race and Class
  • Conclusion
  • "A Masterpiece of Camouflage": Australian Modernism and Prelude to Christopher (1934)
  • Reading Modernism and Modernity into Cultural Nationalism
  • Eugenics, Modernism and the Modern Woman
  • Stylistic Hybridity in Prelude to Christopher
  • The Quarantined Island
  • Prelude to Christopher and the Middlebrow
  • Prelude to Christopher and Racial Otherness
  • Conclusion: "Portrait of Linda"
  • "Like the Lens of a Camera": Commercial Culture, Settler Belonging and Middlebrow Modernism in Return to Coolami (1936)
  • Modernism and its Relations
  • Return to Coolami and mass culture
  • Settler Vision
  • Modern(ist) Vision
  • Seeing in Motion
  • Adjusted Vision
  • Middlebrow Modernist Time and Memory
  • Modernist Timelessness
  • Ambivalence About Modernity
  • Conclusion
  • "The Everlasting Voice of Man": Modernist Aesthetic Utopianism and Sun Across the Sky (1937)
  • "Writers of the Individualistic and Liberalizing Type"
  • Sun Across the Sky and the Artist
  • Vitalism and Art
  • Mass Civilisation
  • The Middlebrow Cultural Critic
  • Mapping the Community
  • The Threat of the Global
  • The Limits of Aesthetic Utopianism
  • The Ethics of the Middlebrow Novel
  • Conclusion
  • "The Vast, the Bewildering, the Menacing Problems of all Humanity": Regional Cosmopolitanism and the Political Middlebrow in Waterway (1938)
  • Cosmopolitan Humanism
  • Regional Cosmopolitanism
  • "Let's Go and Join the Revolution": Aesthetic Utopianism and Politics
  • Ethical Encounters and the Face-to-face
  • Aesthetic Utopianism and the Second World War
  • Sydney Harbour and Interwar Modernity: "Haled With Glamour and Romance"
  • "A Menace, a Terror, Death Waiting"
  • Conclusion
  • "An Exercise in Imagination": The Limits of Empathy in The Timeless Land (1941)

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