Lusting for London: Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950 [Hardcover]

This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia.Introduction: Issues of Definition and Evidence Sailing for Eldorado: Going Home in the Literary Imagination A Gout of Bile: Metic and Immigrant Expatriates The Aroma of the Past: In Antipodean London Drawing off the Rich Cream: The Struggle in London Who Are You? No One: The Hacking Journalist in London The Dear Old Mother Country: Richardson's The Way Home and Stead's For Love Alone Always the Feeling of Australia in the Air: Martin Boyd's Lucinda Brayford A Leaven of Venturesome Minds: Literary Expatriates and Australian Culture No More Pap from the Teats of London: From Expatriation to Transnationalism A Padded Cell in Wagga Wagga

A keenly analytical and brilliantly written account of eight decades of the experiences of Australian expatriate authors in London. - Peter Pierce, editor of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature

PETER MORTON Associate Professor of English at Flinders University, Australia.