ix, 245 pages ; 24 cm. First Edition. #060822 Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-234) and index. (Review copy label on fep.)

• Prologue: the trials of Robert Close and Frank Hardy
• 1. Modernism and nationalism: JINDYWOROBAKS, Angry Penguins, Meanjin and other weird creatures
• 2. Literary conflicts and failed vision: Overland and the realist writers’ groups
• 3. The community of Overland: Lambert, Morrison, Waten, Hewett and Martin
• 4. Conspiring for freedom: the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom
• 5. The mission of Quadrant: James McAuley and voices from the Right
• 6. Cold war on writing
• 7. Proprietors at war: new journalism in the Lucky Country
• 8. New Little Magazines
• 9. Opposing the pages: the subsidised journals 1964-1972
• 10. From rhetoric to eloquence: the generation of 1968.

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