Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism

Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism

Brayshaw, Meg

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

02/2021

217

Dura

Inglês

9783030644253

15 a 20 dias

454

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1. Introduction: Writing a city built on water.- 2. The origins of Australian urban modernity: Christina Stead's Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934).- 3. Science, everyday experience and modern urban women: Dymphna Cusack's Jungfrau (1936).- 4. Ecology, urban ethics and the Harbour: Eleanor Dark's Waterway (1938).- 5. Plans, porosity and the possibilities of urban narrative: Kylie Tennant's Foveaux (1939).- 6. The end of the city: M. Barnard Eldershaw's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947; 1983).- 7. Conclusion: Sydney then and now.
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urban studies;modernist literature;Sydney waterway;Australian women's writing;Australia and climate change;Australia and modernity;maritime studies;oceanic studies