Social patterns in Australian literature, c.1950-71

 
Component identifier:
Series 15
Content Summary:

Series 15 is comprised of 56 files.

Published in 1971, Social Patterns in Australian literature was Inglis Moore's most substantial and enduring contribution to the study of Australian literature. He commenced working on the topic during the 1930s, developing many of its themes during his Commonwealth Literary Fund lectures at the University of Queensland in 1946 and the University of Sydney in 1951 (see Series 9A/1). In 1951 a first draft of the work, under the title The Social Mirror, shared first prize for a work of non-fiction in the Commonwealth Jubilee Literary Competition. In 1964 Inglis Moore submitted an expanded, updated, reshaped and retitled version of the work to the University of Melbourne in the form of an unsuccessful Doctor of Letters thesis. After his retirement in 1966, utilising financial assistance from the Australian Research Grants Committee, he again reshaped the work, this time into its final form.

Immediate source of acquisition:
In 1979, the year following Tom Inglis Moore's death, the National Library purchased the Inglis Moore Papers from his daughter, Pacita Alexander.

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