Romantic Nationalism and the Descent into Myth: William Lane's The Workingman's Paradise

Authors

  • Andrew McCann The University of Melbourne

Keywords:

William Lane, nationalism, Romanticisim

Abstract

The paper argues that William Lane's 1892 social-realist novel The Workingman's Paradise is symptomatic of the ways in which the persistence of Romanticisim organises popular political consciousness at the end of the nineteenth century in Australia.

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Published

2013-01-27