ix, 245 pages ; 24 cm. First Edition. #060822 Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-234) and index. (Review copy label on fep.)
- Prologue: the trials of Robert Close and Frank Hardy
- 1. Modernism and nationalism: JINDYWOROBAKS, Angry Penguins, Meanjin and other weird creatures
- 2. Literary conflicts and failed vision: Overland and the realist writers’ groups
- 3. The community of Overland: Lambert, Morrison, Waten, Hewett and Martin
- 4. Conspiring for freedom: the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom
- 5. The mission of Quadrant: James McAuley and voices from the Right
- 6. Cold war on writing
- 7. Proprietors at war: new journalism in the Lucky Country
- 8. New Little Magazines
- 9. Opposing the pages: the subsidised journals 1964-1972
- 10. From rhetoric to eloquence: the generation of 1968.
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