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Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance: Quarterly Essay 12

Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance: Quarterly Essay 12

Australia's British Inheritance: Quarterly Essay 12

by David Malouf
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/2003

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In the fourthQuarterly Essayof 2003, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the Westminster system, as the irreducible ground on which any Australian achievement is based. Britain has always been the tolerant parent, and an older Australia could be both intensely patriotic and see itself as what it was, a transplantation of Britain. This relationship did not exclude America but it made for a sometimes complicated threesome of nations. This is a brilliant, deeply meditated essay by one of our finest writers about the traditions that shaped Australia and which connect it to one of the mightier traditions in world history.
'...Made in Englandis ... a case of one of Australia's most eminent novelists allowing himself to imagine, and by imagining to analyse, the hopes and glories, once and future, that were part of this new Britannia.' -Peter Craven,Introduction
'Any argument for the republic based on the need to make a final break with Britain will fail.' -David Malouf,Made In England
ISBN:
9781863953955
9781863953955
Category:
Sociology & anthropology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-11-2003
Publisher:
Black Inc.
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
12th Edition
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
235x167x8mm
Weight:
0.19kg
David Malouf

David Malouf was born in Brisbane in 1934. Since 'Interiors' in Four Poets, 1962, he has published poetry, novels and short stories, essays, opera librettos and a play, and is widely translated.

His most recent poetry volumes include Typewriter Music (UQP, 2007) and his selected poems, Revolving Days, (UQP, 2008). Earth Hour (UQP, 2014), won both the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Malouf was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1987 and elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1989. In 1997 he was declared an Australian National Living Treasure, while he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000.

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