Awards

• Winner of Alvie Egan Award (for ECRs) 2023 (Australia)
• Winner of Walter McCrae Russell Award 2023 (Australia)

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Author:   Melinda J. Cooper
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
Imprint:   Sydney University Press
ISBN:  

9781743328569

ISBN 10:   1743328567
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   04 October 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology Middlebrow modernism: Negotiating settler-colonial modernity, regional cosmopolitanism and liberal humanism “Whether you deal in books or peanut brittle”: Writing for the popular market in Eleanor Dark’s 1920s magazine fiction and Slow Dawning (1932) “A masterpiece of camouflage”: Australian modernism and Prelude to Christopher (1934) “Like the lens of a camera”: Commercial culture, settler belonging and middlebrow modernism in Return to Coolami (1936) “The everlasting voice of man”: Modernist aesthetic utopianism and Sun Across the Sky (1937) “The vast, the bewildering, the menacing problems of all humanity”: Regional cosmopolitanism and the political middlebrow in Waterway (1938) “An exercise in imagination”: The limits of empathy in The Timeless Land (1941) Conclusion Bibliography Index

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an original and provocative work that both affirms and redefines Eleanor Dark's position as a major Australian writer and cultural figure Emeritus Professor David Carter

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Melinda Cooper's research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Australian literature. Her work on Australian modernism has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Melinda has taught in the department of English at the University of Sydney. She is the Publicity Officer for the Australasian Modernist Studies Network (AMSN).

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