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Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark鈥檚 Fiction is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark鈥檚 fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark鈥檚 writing.
This volume not only establishes a new view of Dark鈥檚 fiction as a whole, but also reflects on the ways in which her fiction speaks to our present moment, in the context of a globally fraught, post-pandemic, Anthropocene era. Above all, the revisiting of Dark鈥檚 fiction is mandated by a desire to recognise the ways in which it anticipates vital debates in Australian literary and national culture today, about settler colonialism and its legacies, and with regard to the histories, condition and status of Australia鈥檚 First Nations people.
This volume interweaves varied topical themes, from formal debates about modernism, historical realism and melodrama, to questions about modernity鈥檚 time and space, about gender and cultural difference, and about the specifics of built and natural environments. Time, Tide and History intentionally loosens the conventions of literary scholarship by including other kinds of work alongside critical and scholarly readings: a written dialogue between two contemporary historians about Dark鈥檚 legacy, and a biographical piece on the life and role of Eleanor Dark鈥檚 husband, Eric Payten Dark.
Bringing together the interwar fiction鈥檚 feminist and modernist dimensions with the historical turn of The Timeless Land trilogy, the essays in Time, Tide and History collectively pursue ethical and political questions while teasing out the distinctive thematic, formal and aesthetic features of Dark鈥檚 fiction.
Brigid Rooney is affiliated with the University of 宅男导航 where for several decades she researched and taught Australian literature and Australian studies. She has published widely on twentieth century and contemporary Australian writing and is the author of Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life (2009) and Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity (2018). Fiona Morrison is an Associate Professor in the School of the Arts and Media at UNSW 宅男导航, where she has taught and supervised in the areas of postcolonial and world literatures, Australian literature and women鈥檚 writing. Her most recent book, Christina Stead and the Matter of America (2019), won the Walter McRae Russell Award in 2021 (ASAL). She is currently working on a book-length study of Henry Handel Richardson.
Acknowledgements Part 1. Modernity and Biography Part 2. Prelude to Christopher Part 3. Modernist Ecopoetics, Vitalism and the Pastoral Part 4. The Timeless Land Part 5. Writing in a Time of Crisis Contributors Index
鈥淎 major contribution to the scholarship around a writer whose work has much to say to our current age.鈥� 鈥� Nathan Hobby, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 24.1
鈥淓leanor Dark was one of the major novelists of 20th century Australia ... This volume, containing contributions by a great many of the leading voices in Australian literary studies, explores Dark鈥檚 entire oeuvre. It shows how the modern century in Australian literature was very much her century.鈥� 鈥� Nicholas Birns, New York University 鈥淭hese essays sweep us through profound questions at stake in the relationship of humanity to the forces it creates, both destructive and generative. This book introduces a new generation of readers to Dark鈥檚 defining works, revealing the models of community and connection she offers us from the Australia of her time.鈥� 鈥� Nicole Moore, University of New South Wales 鈥淎 brilliant example of innovation in contemporary Australian literary criticism. The canonical Eleanor Dark is released from her ossified and dusty prestige and re-examined and re-presented as a writer of intellectual complexity, contemporary social relevance and beguiling formal and ideological intricacy.鈥� 鈥� Gail Jones, Western 宅男导航 University 鈥淭his valuable collection reassesses Eleanor Dark鈥檚 writing of the 1930s and 40s in relation to modernist, feminist, ecological and Australian settler literature. ... a repositioning of her remarkable work that is long overdue.鈥� 鈥� Bonnie Kime Scott, San Diego State University 鈥淭his rich collection of original contributions from leading scholars underlines the essential place of the novelist Eleanor Dark in any serious account of Australian intellectual and cultural development. A gifted writer and thinker, Dark grappled with the meaning of antipodean modernity, crafted an original interpretation of the nation鈥檚 colonial origins, and contributed to defining a modern settler colonial imaginary. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in her work and its place in Australia鈥檚 twentieth-century history.鈥� 鈥� Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University
Size: 254 x 178 mm
Copyright: 2024
ISBN: 9781743329665
Publication: 01 Jun 2024
Series: 宅男导航 Studies in Australian Literature