Social Patterns in Australian Literature

T. Inglis Moore’s Social Patterns in Australian Literature is a pioneering socio-literary study that treats Australian writing less as a matter of pure aesthetics than as a cultural mirror, reflecting the distinctive habits of thought, feeling, and behavior that have shaped the nation’s identity. Beginning from the premise that literature is inseparable from its social context, Moore identifies the dominant “patterns” that recur across novels, stories, and poems, analyzing their origins in ...