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Novel Politics - Studies in Australian political fiction (Paperback)
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Percy Bysshe Shelley once described poets as the 'unacknowledged
legislators of the world'. If this is true, Australian political
scientists have shown curiously little interest in the role that
literary figures play in the nation's political life. Novel
Politics takes the relationship between literature and politics
seriously, analysing the work of six writers, each the author of a
classic text about Australian society. These authors bridge the
history of local writing, from pre-Federation colonial Australia
(Catherine Spence, Rosa Praed and Catherine Martin) to the
contemporary moment (Tim Winton, Christos Tsiolkas and Kim Scott).
Novel Politics unpicks the many political threads woven into these
books, as they document the social world as it exists, while
suggesting new possibilities for the nation's future. As political
commentators of a particular kind, all six authors offer unique
insights into the deeper roots of politics in Australia, beyond the
theatre of parliament and out into the wider social world, as
imagined by its dreamers and criticised by its most incisive
discontents.
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