| Main Title: |
The nervous nineties : Australian cultural life in the 1890s / John Docker. |
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| Author: |
Docker, John, 1945-
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| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press, 1991. |
| Collation: |
xxviii, 251 p. ; pbk, 22 cm. |
| Summary: |
1. Men and drink: Louisa Lawson's 'The Dawn' (1888-1905) -- 2. Feminism, culture and class: more about 'The Dawn' -- 3. A note on Sylvia Lawson's 'Bulletin' -- 4. Botany Bay justice: the 'Bulletin' and the Englightenment -- 5. The 'Bulletin', women and radical liberalism -- 6. Conclusions: the best of the 'Bulletin' and the worst of the... -- 7. The ideology of the professional middle class: Edward Bellamy's 'Looking Backward' -- 8. Utopians at war: Bellamy v. William Morris -- 9. Utopians and anti-utopians in American literature: Bellamy v. Ignatius Donnelly -- 10. Fallout in Australia: Joseph Furphy's 'Rigby's Romance' -- 11. 'Rigby's Romance' as Menippean satire -- 12. Henry Lawson, Chameleon -- 13. The radical intelligentsia as utopian ideal: William Lane's 'The Workingman's Paradise' -- 14. More on 'The Workingman's Paradise': utopia and politics -- 15. Whither civilisation? H.G. Wells and H. Rider Haggard -- 16. The lost civilisations of central Australia -- 17. Masculinity in crisis: Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', George MacDonald's 'Lilith' -- 18. Orientalism and the crisis of masculinity -- 19. Orientalism, masculinity and Lemuria -- 20. Isis unveils in Australia: Lemuria and feminism -- 21. Lemuria and Aboriginal Australia -- 22. Lemuria and the nineties -- 23. Various conclusions: questions and answers.a. |
| Subject: |
Eighteen nineties 1890s
Culture and institutions
Social life and customs
Australia
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| ISBN: |
0195532473 (pbk.) : |
| Notes: |
Undergraduate text.
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