Melinda Cooper’s research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Australian literature. Her work on Australian modernism has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Melinda has taught in the department of English at the University of Sydney. She is the Publicity Officer for the Australasian Modernist Studies Network (AMSN).

“an original and provocative work that both affirms and redefines Eleanor Dark’s position as a major Australian writer and cultural figure” Emeritus Professor David Carter

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChronologyMiddlebrow modernism: Negotiating settler-colonial modernity, regional cosmopolitanism and liberal humanism“Whether you deal in books or peanut brittle”: Writing for the popular market in Eleanor Dark’s 1920s magazine fiction and Slow Dawning (1932)“A masterpiece of camouflage”: Australian modernism and Prelude to Christopher (1934)“Like the lens of a camera”: Commercial culture, settler belonging and middlebrow modernism in Return to Coolami (1936)“The everlasting voice of man”: Modernist aesthetic utopianism and Sun Across the Sky (1937)“The vast, the bewildering, the menacing problems of all humanity”: Regional cosmopolitanism and the political middlebrow in Waterway (1938)“An exercise in imagination”: The limits of empathy in The Timeless Land (1941)ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Melinda Cooper’s research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Australian literature. Her work on Australian modernism has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Melinda has taught in the department of English at the University of Sydney. She is the Publicity Officer for the Australasian Modernist Studies Network (AMSN).

“an original and provocative work that both affirms and redefines Eleanor Dark’s position as a major Australian writer and cultural figure” Emeritus Professor David Carter

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChronologyMiddlebrow modernism: Negotiating settler-colonial modernity, regional cosmopolitanism and liberal humanism“Whether you deal in books or peanut brittle”: Writing for the popular market in Eleanor Dark’s 1920s magazine fiction and Slow Dawning (1932)“A masterpiece of camouflage”: Australian modernism and Prelude to Christopher (1934)“Like the lens of a camera”: Commercial culture, settler belonging and middlebrow modernism in Return to Coolami (1936)“The everlasting voice of man”: Modernist aesthetic utopianism and Sun Across the Sky (1937)“The vast, the bewildering, the menacing problems of all humanity”: Regional cosmopolitanism and the political middlebrow in Waterway (1938)“An exercise in imagination”: The limits of empathy in The Timeless Land (1941)ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Melinda Cooper’s research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Australian literature. Her work on Australian modernism has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Melinda has taught in the department of English at the University of Sydney. She is the Publicity Officer for the Australasian Modernist Studies Network (AMSN).

“an original and provocative work that both affirms and redefines Eleanor Dark’s position as a major Australian writer and cultural figure” Emeritus Professor David Carter

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChronologyMiddlebrow modernism: Negotiating settler-colonial modernity, regional cosmopolitanism and liberal humanism“Whether you deal in books or peanut brittle”: Writing for the popular market in Eleanor Dark’s 1920s magazine fiction and Slow Dawning (1932)“A masterpiece of camouflage”: Australian modernism and Prelude to Christopher (1934)“Like the lens of a camera”: Commercial culture, settler belonging and middlebrow modernism in Return to Coolami (1936)“The everlasting voice of man”: Modernist aesthetic utopianism and Sun Across the Sky (1937)“The vast, the bewildering, the menacing problems of all humanity”: Regional cosmopolitanism and the political middlebrow in Waterway (1938)“An exercise in imagination”: The limits of empathy in The Timeless Land (1941)ConclusionBibliographyIndex