The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural AustraliaThe Vision Splendid seeks to restore rural Australia to a central place in Australian history by showing how it has shaped Australian culture. It focuses on the culture of work and leisure and the changing conceptions of the Bush in the Australian mind from the late eighteenth century onwards. It maps, for the first time, the development of a set of cultural values and institutions in nineteenth-century rural Australia. |
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Page 139
... play against each other in an annual match , often held on Anniversary Day and usually followed by a dinner . 114 Town versus Country and Town versus Flat matches were also common . But informal games were also popular . On the ...
... play against each other in an annual match , often held on Anniversary Day and usually followed by a dinner . 114 Town versus Country and Town versus Flat matches were also common . But informal games were also popular . On the ...
Page 252
... play's success and , given its working - class characters , he may have found its themes personally distasteful as well.212 But the play , written within a realist Australian literary tradition that valorised Bush characters as ...
... play's success and , given its working - class characters , he may have found its themes personally distasteful as well.212 But the play , written within a realist Australian literary tradition that valorised Bush characters as ...
Page 314
... play ' , 5548 ; page 39 : SLNSW , ' At work and play ' , 3334 ; page 43 : SLNSW , DLPE279 ; page 49 : SLNSW , PXA 1983 F44 ; page 54 : NLA , nla.pic - an2377232 ; page 57 : SLV , h29671-3 ; page 62 : SLNSW , WPO3551 ; page 65 : NLA ...
... play ' , 5548 ; page 39 : SLNSW , ' At work and play ' , 3334 ; page 43 : SLNSW , DLPE279 ; page 49 : SLNSW , PXA 1983 F44 ; page 54 : NLA , nla.pic - an2377232 ; page 57 : SLV , h29671-3 ; page 62 : SLNSW , WPO3551 ; page 65 : NLA ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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