Book review of "Always Almost Modern: Australian print cultures and modernity" by D. Carter. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-925003-10-9

Kuttainen, Victoria

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[Extract] Over the last twenty years, David Carter has approached the question of modernity in Australian literary and cultural studies from almost every angle conceivable: the rise of the modern within contemporary consumer culture; the institutionalization of Australian literature against and within this background; the role of magazines, their relation to the middlebrow and its unique character in Australia (Was Australia always middlebrow? Or was it never, quite?); considering art, television, cultural nationalism, internationalism, fascism, and communism. In so doing, he has uncovered a rich history of print culture in Australia from the First World War to midcentury, years that have historically been cast as Australia's dullest. In Always Almost Modern, Carter has assembled a number of key essays that have become keystones of the broader field of print culture studies and which are exemplary in their engagement with book history, institutional history, periodical studies, film studies, literary repute, and studies of the middlebrow.

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