TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,Melinda J.
TI  - Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction
T2  - Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser
SN  - 9781743328668
AV  - PR9619 .M533 2022
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Sydney University Press
KW  - Dark, Eleanor,
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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); 2; b
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