Manning Clark (ePub)
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Manning Clark was one of the most influential Australian intellectuals of the last half century. His political pronouncements were often highly provocative and his sweeping judgements, dire denunciations and oracular prophecies infuriated conservatives and...
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Manning Clark was one of the most influential Australian intellectuals of the last half century. His political pronouncements were often highly provocative and his sweeping judgements, dire denunciations and oracular prophecies infuriated conservatives and made him a controversial figure.His most enduring legacy, however, was his magisterial six-volume History of Australia. In it he reshaped the now familiar story of our nation's modern evolution; from the First Fleet's arrival, the convicts, the rum rebellion, gold, the sheep's back, Federation, and the glorious defeat at Gallipoli, up to the nation emerging from the Great Depression and on the threshold of a new world war. Within the dramatic narrative, which he envisaged as an epic, are highly original and insightful portraits of its great men with their tragic flaws: Phillip, Macquarie, Burke and Wills, Bligh, Wentworth, and above all Henry Lawson.But behind this ambitious work - with its more than a million words and twenty-five, long slogging years of research and scholarship - was a man as flawed as the historical figures he was presenting, figures in whose personalities and life events he often saw himself dauntingly mirrored. He was wracked with self-doubt, and dogged by fears of failure and personal weakness, he craved forgiveness for the betrayals that stalked and threatened his marriage to Dymphna, and wrestled with an elusive Christ in whom he longed to have a secure faith. Behind the signature broad hat and the stern unsmiling visage was a tortured man.That is the complex, enigmatic and thoroughly enthralling Clark who emerges in this remarkable biography by Brian Matthews, whose previous acclaimed memoir of Louise Lawson was judged to be both ground breaking and revolutionary. Manning Clark: a life draws a compelling portrait of the great historian, who attracted both critics and acolytes alike in equal number. Both sides can expect to be astounded and captivated.
Autoren-Porträt von Brian Matthews
Professor Brian Matthews is the acclaimed author of Louisa (McPhee Gribble,1987) and more recently of his idiosyncratic memoir, A Fine and Private Place (Pan Mac, 2000).Peter Craven wrote of him in the Sydney Morning Herald:
'Brian Matthews has been a powerful presence on the Australian literary scene at least since the late 1980s, when he published Louisa, his factional life of Henry Lawson's mother ... As a literary career, Matthews's presents the spectacle of an English professor in mid-life retreat from the confining orbit of the academic. Louisa was a grand and crazy maverick of a book and the fiction (some serious, some joshing) that followed, together with the shaggy-dog journalism and the short whip round the subject of Federation in his recently published book of the same name, testify to the canniness and craftsmanship of a natural writer.'
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- Autor: Brian Matthews
- 2010, 576 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Allen & Unwin
- ISBN-10: 1741769841
- ISBN-13: 9781741769845
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2010
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