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MIDDLEBROW MODERNISM - ELEANOR DARK'S INTERWAR FICTION

Middlebrow Modernism - Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction
Melinda J. Cooper
Sydney University Press (2022)
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Middlebrow Modernism - Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction
33,10 €
Sydney University Press
Sivumäärä: 290 sivua
Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2022, 04.10.2022 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
Tuotesarja: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
Winner of the Alvie Egan Award 2023

Eleanor Dark (1901–85) is one of Australia’s most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and represents a significant engagement with global modernity from a unique position within settler culture. Yet Dark’s contribution to 20th-century literature has been undervalued in the fields of both Australian literary studies and world literature. Although two biographies have been written about her life, there has been no book-length critical study of her writing published since 1976.

Middlebrow Modernism counters this neglect by providing the first full-length critical survey of Eleanor Dark’s writing to be published in over four decades. Focusing on the fiction that Dark produced during the interwar years and reading this in the context of her larger body of work, this book positions Dark’s writing as important to the study of Australian literature and global modernism.

Melinda Cooper argues that Dark’s fiction exhibits a distinctive aesthetic of middlebrow modernism, which blends attributes of literary modernism with popular fiction. It seeks to mediate and reconcile apparent binaries: modernism and mass culture; liberal humanism and experimental aesthetics; settler society and international modernity. The term middlebrow modernism also captures the way Dark negotiated cosmopolitan commitments with more place-based attachments to nation and local community within the mid-20th century.

Middlebrow Modernism posits that Dark’s fiction and the broader phenomenon of Australian modernism offer essential case studies for larger debates operating within global modernist and world literature studies, providing perspectives these fields might otherwise miss.

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