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Bookmen's Dominion: Cultural Life in New Zealand 1920-1950, The by Christopher Hilliard (Paperback, 2006)

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The Bookmen's Colony recovers an almost forgotten chapter in New Zealand's ongoing conversation about itself. As early as the 1920s, people with backgrounds in journalism, librarianship or the professions such as the law were debating the details and the wider significance of the Treaty and the NZ Wars, and arguing about modernism and nationhood in New Zealand poetry. From the 1930s, these 'bookmen', as they sometimes called themselves, found themselves under attack. Younger male writers were dismissive of Robin Hyde and the women poets whom the bookmen championed, prizing different values influenced by modernism or a 'tougher' sense of New Zealandness. University-trained historians displaced 'amateurs' like pioneering oral historian James Cowan. Chris Hilliard examines the ways changes in ideas and tastes were related to changes in the country's cultural power bases. In the process, he reconstructs the world of Pakeha cultural discussion between the world wars - a milieu that swung between the gentlemanly and the blokey, the respectable and the mildly bohemian, the appreciation of 'pure' poetry and the pleasures of daily journalism and the writing of murder mysteries.

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Publisher
Auckland University Press
ISBN-13
9781869403621
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96446404

Product Key Features

Book Title
Bookmen's Dominion: Cultural Life in New Zealand 1920-1950, the
Author
Christopher Hilliard
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, History
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
144 Pages

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Title_Author
Christopher Hilliard
Country/Region of Manufacture
New Zealand

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