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A discussion of similarities in venue, time and pre-occupations (Australian cities' and industries' vulnerability to sea attack during WWII, 'cultural cringe' of the '1950s) in Eleanor Dark's The Little Company and Dymphna Cusack's Southern Steel, with reference to Cusack's defence of Australian literature and development of regional awareness in her Newcastle setting, and Dark's exploration of a new love for the Australian landscape, and the awareness of national history in both.
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Subjects:
- The Little Company 1945 single work novel
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow 1947 single work novel
- Southern Steel 1953 single work novel
- Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- ca. 1942
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