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050 0 4 _aPR9619
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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aCooper, Melinda J.
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245 1 0 _aMiddlebrow Modernism
_bEleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction.
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260 _aSydney :
_bSydney University Press,
_c(c)2022.
300 _a1 online resource (291 pages).
336 _atext
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490 1 _aSydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
500 _aDescription based upon print version of record.
504 _a2
505 0 0 _aIntro --
_tHalf title --
_tTitle --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction Middlebrow Modernism: Negotiating Settler-colonial Modernity, Regional Cosmopolitanism and Liberal Humanism --
_tEleanor Dark and Interwar Australia --
_tRegional Cosmopolitanism --
_tSettler-colonial Modernity --
_tEleanor Dark and the Transnational Turn --
_tRelational and Uneven --
_tMiddlebrow Modernism --
_tMiddlebrow Modernism in Interwar Australia --
_tMapping Eleanor Dark's Middlebrow Modernism
505 0 0 _a"Whether You Deal in Books or Peanut Brittle": Writing for the Popular Market in Eleanor Dark's 1920s Magazine Fiction and Slow Dawning (1932) --
_tReframing Eleanor Dark's 1920s Fiction --
_tTechnological Modernity --
_tThe Modern Woman --
_t"The Ladies' Circulating Library": Eleanor Dark and Her Father --
_t"My Unspeakable Slow Dawning" --
_tA New Kind of Citizen: The Middle-class, Professional Woman --
_tThe Changing Nature of Marriage and Romance --
_tValerie and the "Army of Women": The Individual and the Collective --
_tThe Technical Expert --
_tRace and Class --
_tConclusion
505 0 0 _a"A Masterpiece of Camouflage": Australian Modernism and Prelude to Christopher (1934) --
_tReading Modernism and Modernity into Cultural Nationalism --
_tEugenics, Modernism and the Modern Woman --
_tStylistic Hybridity in Prelude to Christopher --
_tThe Quarantined Island --
_tPrelude to Christopher and the Middlebrow --
_tPrelude to Christopher and Racial Otherness --
_tConclusion: "Portrait of Linda" --
_t"Like the Lens of a Camera": Commercial Culture, Settler Belonging and Middlebrow Modernism in Return to Coolami (1936) --
_tModernism and its Relations --
_tReturn to Coolami and mass culture --
_tSettler Vision
505 0 0 _aModern(ist) Vision --
_tSeeing in Motion --
_tAdjusted Vision --
_tMiddlebrow Modernist Time and Memory --
_tModernist Timelessness --
_tAmbivalence About Modernity --
_tConclusion --
_t"The Everlasting Voice of Man": Modernist Aesthetic Utopianism and Sun Across the Sky (1937) --
_t"Writers of the Individualistic and Liberalizing Type" --
_tSun Across the Sky and the Artist --
_tVitalism and Art --
_tMass Civilisation --
_tThe Middlebrow Cultural Critic --
_tMapping the Community --
_tThe Threat of the Global --
_tThe Limits of Aesthetic Utopianism --
_tThe Ethics of the Middlebrow Novel --
_tConclusion
505 0 0 _a"The Vast, the Bewildering, the Menacing Problems of all Humanity": Regional Cosmopolitanism and the Political Middlebrow in Waterway (1938) --
_tCosmopolitan Humanism --
_tRegional Cosmopolitanism --
_t"Let's Go and Join the Revolution": Aesthetic Utopianism and Politics --
_tEthical Encounters and the Face-to-face --
_tAesthetic Utopianism and the Second World War --
_tSydney Harbour and Interwar Modernity: "Haled With Glamour and Romance" --
_t"A Menace, a Terror, Death Waiting" --
_tConclusion --
_t"An Exercise in Imagination": The Limits of Empathy in The Timeless Land (1941)
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600 1 0 _aDark, Eleanor,
_d1901-1985
_xCriticism and interpretation.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_dCynthia Snell