Lusting for London (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
284
Utgivningsdatum
2011-11-15
Förlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Illustrationer
X, 284 p.
Dimensioner
213 x 145 x 20 mm
Vikt
477 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Hardback
ISBN
9780230338883

Lusting for London

Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950

av P Morton
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2011-11-15
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This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia.
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"A keenly analytical and brilliantly written account of eight decades of the experiences of Australian expatriate authors in London." - Peter Pierce, editor of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature

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PETER MORTON Associate Professor of English at Flinders University, Australia.

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Introduction: Issues of Definition and Evidence Sailing for Eldorado: Going Home in the Literary Imagination A Gout of Bile: Metic and Immigrant Expatriates The Aroma of the Past: In Antipodean London Drawing off the Rich Cream: The Struggle in London Who Are You? No One: The Hacking Journalist in London The Dear Old Mother Country: Richardson's The Way Home and Stead's For Love Alone Always the Feeling of Australia in the Air: Martin Boyd's Lucinda Brayford A Leaven of Venturesome Minds: Literary Expatriates and Australian Culture No More Pap from the Teats of London: From Expatriation to Transnationalism A Padded Cell in Wagga Wagga

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