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FROM A DISTANT SHORE
AUSTRALIAN WRITERS IN BRITAIN 1820-2012 |
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Bruce Bennett, Anne Pender |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1921867949 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781921867941 |
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| Publisher: |
MONASH UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2012 |
| Series: |
Australian Literary Studies |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Synopsis: |
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. Bennett and Pender uncover many unknown writers and document their adventures both on and off the page. They also discover the expatriate lives of figures such as Pamela Travers (author of Mary Poppins), Frederic Manning, Randolph Stow and Madeleine St John. They explore the work of lesser known writers such as Jill Neville, as well as investigating Christina Stead's expatriate years, the modernist dramas of Patrick White and Barry Humphries, and the arguments with England expressed in the lives and work of Peter Porter, Germaine Greer, Michael Blakemore and Geoffrey Robertson.This book is the first historically comprehensive, detailed examination of expatriate Australian writers at work in Britain. The authors illuminate two centuries of intense literary activity and discover the major contributions by Australian writers to world literature. |
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illustrations |
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Australia |
| Imprint: |
Monash University Publishing |
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