Review of Intimate Horizons: The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature, by Bill Ashcroft, Frances Devlin-Glass, and Lyn McCredden
Abstract
It is difficult to overstate the importance of this work as one of the first major volumes to address the idea of the sacred in post-World War II Australian literature. It is ambitious, setting the ambitions of literature itself into a scholarly framework of fine textual readings and drawing conclusions about wider national culture.
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Published 1 June 2011 in Volume 26 No. 2. Subjects: Spirituality, Patrick White.
Cite as: Brown, Lachlan. ‘Review of Intimate Horizons: The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature, by Bill Ashcroft, Frances Devlin-Glass, and Lyn McCredden.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, 2011, doi: 10.20314/als.6aa0bf45ca.