Writing in Hope and Fear
Subtitle: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780521567565
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Politics and literature; History; Authors, Australian; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Australia; History and criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Australian literature - 20th century - Histor; Australian literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Australian literature; General; 20th century; Political and social views
First sentence: On St Patrick's Day, 1946, in the Supreme Court of Victoria, the Crown Prosecutor, Leo Little KC, once more rose to his feet before the presiding judge, Sir Edmund Herring, Chief Justice.