Intruders in the Bush: The Australian Quest for IdentityJohn Carroll Intruders In The Bush challenges the bushman legend and presents evidence that it was discontented urban intellectuals in the 1890s who romanticised the bushman and his notions of mateship and eglatiarianism. John Carroll and several other contributors argue that a guilt-stricken, culturally bashful upper middle class promoted the mateship myth and failed to install its own values. The book goes on to look at ways in which Australia has been re-examined in recent books and art. The second edition has been revised and reshaped, and includes major new pieces by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, John Hirst, Robert Manne and John Carroll. |
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... Roderic Quinn ; failed matriculation candidates like Lawson ; disillusioned schoolteachers like Mary Cameron : all clamoured for a place in the one calling , open to talent and con- sistent with literary aspirations , which a colonial ...
... Roderic Quinn ; failed matriculation candidates like Lawson ; disillusioned schoolteachers like Mary Cameron : all clamoured for a place in the one calling , open to talent and con- sistent with literary aspirations , which a colonial ...
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... Roderic Quinn and , away from Sydney , Bernard O'Dowd and A. G. Stephens . From the attack on priest - and - princecraft , it was only a step further to an attack on inheritance . Since the days of the Land and Labour League in the ...
... Roderic Quinn and , away from Sydney , Bernard O'Dowd and A. G. Stephens . From the attack on priest - and - princecraft , it was only a step further to an attack on inheritance . Since the days of the Land and Labour League in the ...
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... Roderic Quinn wrote euphorically of a new unity of ' Labour and Thought ' and many of the Bulletin crowd - including Lawson , George Black , Mary Cameron , Con . Lindsay , and ' Price Warung ' — were active in socialist circles at the ...
... Roderic Quinn wrote euphorically of a new unity of ' Labour and Thought ' and many of the Bulletin crowd - including Lawson , George Black , Mary Cameron , Con . Lindsay , and ' Price Warung ' — were active in socialist circles at the ...
Contents
The Problems with the Classical Legends | 67 |
An Urban Context | 109 |
The Failure | 143 |
Copyright | |
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