Radical Cousins: Nineteenth Century American & Australian Writers
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the crossroads of two vibrant literary traditions, Radical Cousins: Nineteenth Century American & Australian Writers presents a compelling comparative study of the writers who shaped the cultural identities of two young, ambitious nations during the nineteenth century. Joseph Jones argues that despite the vast geographical distance separating the United States and Australia, their literary voices share a striking kinship — born of colonial experience, frontier mythology, and a restless desire to forge something entirely new from the English language. Jones illustrates these transatlantic and transpacific connections with scholarly precision, drawing on an impressive breadth of primary texts and cultural context to reveal the ideological and aesthetic threads that bind these two seemingly disparate traditions. His analysis uncovers the radical impulses — democratic, egalitarian, and anti-establishment — that animated writers on both sides of the Pacific, challenging readers to reconsider the boundaries of national literature altogether. For anyone captivated by the question of how place and politics forge a literary voice, this study raises a fascinating possibility: that the great American and Australian literary traditions may, in fact, be telling the same story.
Author: Joseph Jones
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the crossroads of two vibrant literary traditions, Radical Cousins: Nineteenth Century American & Australian Writers presents a compelling comparative study of the writers who shaped the cultural identities of two young, ambitious nations during the nineteenth century. Joseph Jones argues that despite the vast geographical distance separating the United States and Australia, their literary voices share a striking kinship — born of colonial experience, frontier mythology, and a restless desire to forge something entirely new from the English language. Jones illustrates these transatlantic and transpacific connections with scholarly precision, drawing on an impressive breadth of primary texts and cultural context to reveal the ideological and aesthetic threads that bind these two seemingly disparate traditions. His analysis uncovers the radical impulses — democratic, egalitarian, and anti-establishment — that animated writers on both sides of the Pacific, challenging readers to reconsider the boundaries of national literature altogether. For anyone captivated by the question of how place and politics forge a literary voice, this study raises a fascinating possibility: that the great American and Australian literary traditions may, in fact, be telling the same story.