Lusting for London
Subtitle: Australian expatriate writers at the hub of the Empire, 1870-1950
By: Peter Morton
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780230338883
Subjects: Australians; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Australian literature; English influences; History
Description: This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. PeterMorton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Issues of definition and evidence; title: Sailing for El Dorado: going home in the literary imagination; title: A gout of bile: metic and immigrant expatriates; title: The aroma of the past: in antipodean London; title: Drawing off the rich cream: the struggle in London; title: Who are you? no one: the hacking journalist in London; title: The dear old mother country: Richardson's the way home and Stead's for love alone; title: Always the feeling of Australia in the air: Martin Boyd's Lucinda Brayford; title: A leaven of venturesome minds: literary expatriates and Australian culture; title: No more pap from the teats of London: from expatriation to transnationalism; title: Conclusion: a padded cell in Wagga Wagga.