{"product_id":"time-tide-and-history-9781743329665","title":"Time, Tide and History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime, Tide and History: Essays on the Writing of Eleanor Dark \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark's fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark's writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume not only establishes a new view of Dark's fiction as a whole, but also reflects on the ways in which her fiction speaks to our present moment, in the context of a globally fraught, post-pandemic, Anthropocene era. Above all, the revisiting of Dark's fiction is mandated by a desire to recognise the ways in which it anticipates vital debates in Australian literary and national culture today, about settler colonialism and its legacies, and with regard to the histories, condition and status of Australia's First Nations people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume interweaves varied topical themes, from formal debates about modernism, historical realism and melodrama, to questions about modernity's time and space, about gender and cultural difference, and about the specifics of built and natural environments.\u003ci\u003e Time, Tide and History \u003c\/i\u003eintentionally loosens the conventions of literary scholarship by including other kinds of work alongside critical and scholarly readings: a written dialogue between two contemporary historians about Dark's legacy, and a biographical piece on the life and role of Eleanor Dark's husband, Eric Payten Dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together the interwar fiction's feminist and modernist dimensions with the historical turn of\u003ci\u003e The Timeless Land\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, the essays in \u003ci\u003eTime, Tide and History \u003c\/i\u003ecollectively pursue ethical and political questions while teasing out the distinctive thematic, formal and aesthetic features of Dark's fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363243540716,"sku":"9781743329665","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19198333482808.jpg?v=1772919170","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/time-tide-and-history-9781743329665","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}