Sydney and its waterway in Australian literary modernism / Meg Brayshaw.
Brayshaw, Meg.
2021
PR9612.5
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Title Sydney and its waterway in Australian literary modernism / Meg Brayshaw.
Author Brayshaw, Meg.
ISBN 9783030644260 (electronic bk.)
303064426X (electronic bk.)
3030644251
9783030644253
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64426-0
Imprint Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-64426-0 doi
Call Number PR9612.5
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.91209329441
Summary This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its waterway in the context of Australian modernism and modernity in the interwar period. Then as now, Sydney Harbour is both an ecological wonder and ladened with economic, cultural, historical and aesthetic significance for the city by its shores. In Australias earliest canon of urban fiction, writers including Christina Stead, Dymphna Cusack, Eleanor Dark, Kylie Tennant and M. Barnard Eldershaw explore the myth and the reality of the city built on water. Mapping Sydney via its watery and littoral places, these writers trace impacts of empire, commercial capitalism, global trade and technology on the city, while drawing on estuarine logics of flow and blockage, circulation and sedimentation to innovate modes of writing temporally, geographically and aesthetically specific to Sydneys provincial modernity. Contributing to the growing field of oceanic or aqueous studies, Sydney, its Waterway and Australian Modernism shows the capacity of water and human-water relations to make both generative and disruptive contributions to urban topography and narrative topology.
Note Includes index.
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Series Literary urban studies.
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1. Introduction: Writing a city built on water
2. The origins of Australian urban modernity: Christina Steads Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934)
3. Science, everyday experience and modern urban women: Dymphna Cusacks Jungfrau (1936)
4. Ecology, urban ethics and the Harbour: Eleanor Darks Waterway (1938)
5. Plans, porosity and the possibilities of urban narrative: Kylie Tennants Foveaux (1939)
6. The end of the city: M. Barnard Eldershaws Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947; 1983)
7. Conclusion: Sydney then and now.

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