The Colin Roderick Lectures: 1989, The Federal and National Impulse in Australian Literature,1890–1958

Abstract

The assertion that the pessimism and antiromanticism of post-war Europe did not find a ready audience in Australia; that in fact late nineteenth-century romanticism in various guises continued to flourish in Australia well into the 1930s is the starting point for Julian Croft's exploration of the national impulse in Australian literature during the first half of the twentieth century. This monograph has been produced as a part of the Colin Roderick Lecture series.