Dream and Disillusion - A Search for Australian Cultural Identity
Author(s): David Walker
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. xi, 279pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix. Or purple cloth in jacket. Near new. Explores, through the works of four writers and their friends in Melbourne in the first 40 years of the 20th century (Vance Palmer, Frank Wilmot, Louis Esson and Frederick Sinclair), the struggle to identify what was unique and valuable in Australian life.Palmer and his associates sought to realise an Australian literary nationalism. Size: 8vo
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- : Australian National University Press
- : Australian National University Press
- : 01 January 1976
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Walker
- : Hardback
- : First edition
- : 820/.9
- : xi, 279