Table of Contents

Prologue: the trials of Robert Close and Frank Hardy; 1. Modernism and nationalism: JINDYWOROBAKS, Angry Penguins, Meanjin and other weird creatures; 2. Literary conflicts and failed vision: Overland and the realist writers' groups; 3. The community of Overland: Lambert, Morrison, Waten, Hewett and Martin; 4. Conspiring for freedom: the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom; 5. The mission of Quadrant: James McAuley and voices from the Right; 6. Cold war on writing; 7. Proprietors at war: new journalism in the Lucky Country; 8. New Little Magazines; 9. Opposing the pages: the subsidised journals 1964–1972; 10. From rhetoric to eloquence: the generation of 1968.

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A compelling critical and historical account of politics in postwar Australian literary culture.