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From A Distant Shore : Australian Writers in Britain 1820-2012 / Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2013]Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781921867941 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Australian writers in Britain 1820-2012
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.824 23
Contents:
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' --
Contents note continued: Contemporary Australian Writers in Britain / M.J. Hyland.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 809.824 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 90678

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-262)

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' --

Contents note continued: Contemporary Australian Writers in Britain / M.J. Hyland.

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.

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