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The fin de siècle imagination in Australia, 1890-1914, Mark Hearn

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The fin de siècle imagination in Australia, 1890-1914

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1295394222

Mark Hearn

Bloomsbury eBooks.

"This book explores the fin de siècle, an era of powerful global movements and turbulent transition, in Australia and beyond through a series of biographical microhistories. From the first wave feminist Rose Summerfield and the working class radical John Dwyer, to the indigenous rights advocate David Unaipon and the poet Christopher Brennan, Hearn traces the transnational identities, philosophies, ideas and cultures that characterised this era. Examining the struggles and aspirations of fin de siècle lives; respect for the rights of women and indigenous peoples, the injustices and hardship inflicted on working men and women, and the ways in which they imagined a better world, this book examines the transformation and renewal brought about by fin de siècle ideas. It examines the distinctive characteristics of this 'great acceleration' of economic, technological and cultural forces that swept the globe at the turn of the 19th century both within an Australian context and on the world stage. Asserting that the fin de siècle was significant for the making of modern Australia, and demonstrating the impact Australian fin de siècle lives had on the transnational and global movements of the era, Mark Hearn traces the turbulent nature of the fin de siècle imagination in Australia, and its response to these dynamic forces."--, Provided by publisher

Introduction: Ends and beginnings: life and mind at the fin de siècle in Australia -- 1. The Bush Undertaker: Henry Lawson and the stragglers of the second industrial revolution -- 2. Rose Summerfield imagines a New Woman -- 3. The Wanderer: Christopher Brennan's two lives in fin de siècle Sydney -- 4. 'A Modern Eve': Vida Goldstein stands for Parliament -- 5. 'Some disquieting symptoms': Alfred Deakin's nervous breakdown -- 6. David Unaipon, 'the super-aborigine' -- 7. John Dwyer's family stories -- Conclusion: Afterlife -- the endurance of fin de siècle ideas and tensions