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'In the 1950s, bush settings were strong favourites for children’s novels, which often took the form of a generic mix of adventure story and bildungsroman, novel of individual development. In using bush settings to take up the environmental concerns of the period, the early novels of Wrightson and Chauncy added a new dimension to traditional settler images of rural life as central to Australian national identity. The bush is loved for its beauty and revered as a source of knowledge and character building, rather than being represented as an antagonist which must be overcome or domesticated. In this respect, Chauncy in particular anticipates later ecological concerns in writing for children.' (Publication abstract)
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Relationships to the Bush in Nan Chauncy’s Early Novels for Children
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Subjects:
- Devil's Hill 1958 single work children's fiction
- They Found a Cave 1948 single work children's fiction
- Tiger in the Bush 1957 single work children's fiction autobiography
- The Legend of the Nineties 1954 multi chapter work criticism
- The Crooked Snake 1955 single work children's fiction
- The Rocks of Honey 1960 single work children's fiction
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