Just City And The Mirrors: Meanjin Quarterly And The Intellectual Front 1940-1965
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At the heart of Australia's mid-twentieth-century intellectual life stood *Meanjin Quarterly*, a literary journal that became the crucible for the nation's most urgent cultural debates. Just City and the Mirrors chronicles the remarkable twenty-five year history of *Meanjin* from 1940 to 1965, tracing how a small Brisbane-based publication grew into the defining voice of Australian intellectual and literary culture, shaping the contours of national identity during a period of profound social transformation. Lynne Strahan details the journal's fierce engagement with politics, literature, and ideas, painting a vivid portrait of the editors, writers, and thinkers who gathered around its pages to argue, provoke, and inspire. Strahan's authoritative account presents *Meanjin* not merely as a publishing venture but as a battleground where competing visions of Australia's cultural future were contested and forged. Her meticulous research illuminates the broader intellectual currents of the era — nationalism, socialism, modernism — and the outsized role a literary quarterly played in channelling them. Written with scholarly precision yet animated by genuine passion for its subject, this work leaves the reader asking a quietly urgent question: what does it mean for a nation to think out loud?
Author: Lynne Strahan
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the heart of Australia's mid-twentieth-century intellectual life stood *Meanjin Quarterly*, a literary journal that became the crucible for the nation's most urgent cultural debates. Just City and the Mirrors chronicles the remarkable twenty-five year history of *Meanjin* from 1940 to 1965, tracing how a small Brisbane-based publication grew into the defining voice of Australian intellectual and literary culture, shaping the contours of national identity during a period of profound social transformation. Lynne Strahan details the journal's fierce engagement with politics, literature, and ideas, painting a vivid portrait of the editors, writers, and thinkers who gathered around its pages to argue, provoke, and inspire. Strahan's authoritative account presents *Meanjin* not merely as a publishing venture but as a battleground where competing visions of Australia's cultural future were contested and forged. Her meticulous research illuminates the broader intellectual currents of the era — nationalism, socialism, modernism — and the outsized role a literary quarterly played in channelling them. Written with scholarly precision yet animated by genuine passion for its subject, this work leaves the reader asking a quietly urgent question: what does it mean for a nation to think out loud?