Hard frost : structures of feeling in New Zealand literature, 1908-1945 /

"How did New Zealand writers make nationalism out of modernism? What did the process owe to a revolution in sexuality? And what did this mean for writing by women as the 1920s gave way to the 1930s? Writing as a poet as well as a historian, as a critic of ideology, and as a self-confessed fan o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newton, John, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wellington [New Zealand] : Victoria University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Nothing can ever be the same: Mansfield's new worlds
  • Predecessors: Baughan, Bethell, Mason
  • Stridently sex-conscious: Writing and gender (and mountaineering) c. 1928
  • All the history that did not happen: Curnow's critical nationalism
  • Taking poetry seriously: Manliness in Fairburn and Glover
  • Caught on the hinge of an opening door: Hyde and heterosexuality
  • Calling a spade a shovel: Sargeson's disguised poetry.