The troublesome Modern Girl: Jungfrau, national literature, and the vexations of transnational modernity
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Abstract
This article examines the presence of the Modern Girl in interwar literary culture and raises questions about the relative absence of the figure, so thoroughly associated with the Roaring Twenties and Dirty Thirties, in literary history and literature scholarship. Through an analysis of the characterisation of the Modern Girl in Australian writer Dymphna Cusack's 1936 novel Jungfrau and a discussion of the novel's reception history, it raises questions about the relationship between projects of national literature, colonial modernity, urbanisation, and transnationalism which the figure of the Modern Girl may have problematised.
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The Space Between
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Monmouth University
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