Emperors in Lilliput : Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland /
Davidson, Jim,
Emperors in Lilliput : Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland / Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland Jim Davidson. - Australia : Miegunyah Press, 2022. - xi, 467 pages : illustrations, portraits, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
Clement Byrne Christesen was the founder of the Australian literary magazine "Meanjin". He served as the magazine's editor from 1940 until 1974. Stephen Murray-Smith was the founder of the quarterly literary magazine "Overland". He served as the magazine's editor until his death in 1988. Includes notes (pages 406-434) and Illustrations description (page 443).
Includes index and bibliographical references (pages 435-442)
"'Lilliput', in this dual biography, is the world of literary magazines in Australia between the 1940s and the 1980s. Here Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith, of the journals Meanjin and Overland, were determined, driven visionaries. Both were very human-and occasionally bruised-believers in and workers for a better nation. The book ranges from before the Menzies era and the Cold War, through the Whitlam period and beyond to the challenges of the 1980s. It shows how the editors constantly aimed for a culture more liberal, diverse and developed than the one then prevailing. Their publications may have lacked resources and economic return, but they nonetheless possessed authority, regularly providing stimulation for their readers and for the nation.In finely wrought detail, Jim Davidson - the second editor of Meanjin - traces the commitment of Christesen and Murray-Smith to this ambitious cultural project and how it attracted many of the key writers and thinkers of those years. There are pen portraits of many of them, as the reader is taken behind the scenes. Emperors in Lilliput exhibits the enlightened creative spirit animating these journals at their best. It is at once captivating biography and rich social history."--dust jacket.
General.
0522877400 9780522877403
25987274
jb2022036879
Christesen, Clem, editor.
Murray-Smith, Stephen, writer, editor, educator.
Murray-Smith, Stephen, 1922-1988.
Christesen, C. B. 1911-2003.
Meanjin (Melbourne, Australia)
Overland (Melbourne, Australia)
Meanjin (Melbourne, Vic.)--History
Overland (Melbourne, Vic.)--History
Meanjin
Overland
Press and politics--History.--Australia
Periodicals--Australia--Biography.
Literature--Australia--Biography.
Periodicals--History--Australia--20th century.
Literature publishing--History--Australia--20th century.
Publishers and publishing--Australia--Biography.
Editors--Australia--Biography.
Australian.
Biographies.
070.510922
Emperors in Lilliput : Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland / Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland Jim Davidson. - Australia : Miegunyah Press, 2022. - xi, 467 pages : illustrations, portraits, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
Clement Byrne Christesen was the founder of the Australian literary magazine "Meanjin". He served as the magazine's editor from 1940 until 1974. Stephen Murray-Smith was the founder of the quarterly literary magazine "Overland". He served as the magazine's editor until his death in 1988. Includes notes (pages 406-434) and Illustrations description (page 443).
Includes index and bibliographical references (pages 435-442)
"'Lilliput', in this dual biography, is the world of literary magazines in Australia between the 1940s and the 1980s. Here Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith, of the journals Meanjin and Overland, were determined, driven visionaries. Both were very human-and occasionally bruised-believers in and workers for a better nation. The book ranges from before the Menzies era and the Cold War, through the Whitlam period and beyond to the challenges of the 1980s. It shows how the editors constantly aimed for a culture more liberal, diverse and developed than the one then prevailing. Their publications may have lacked resources and economic return, but they nonetheless possessed authority, regularly providing stimulation for their readers and for the nation.In finely wrought detail, Jim Davidson - the second editor of Meanjin - traces the commitment of Christesen and Murray-Smith to this ambitious cultural project and how it attracted many of the key writers and thinkers of those years. There are pen portraits of many of them, as the reader is taken behind the scenes. Emperors in Lilliput exhibits the enlightened creative spirit animating these journals at their best. It is at once captivating biography and rich social history."--dust jacket.
General.
0522877400 9780522877403
25987274
jb2022036879
Christesen, Clem, editor.
Murray-Smith, Stephen, writer, editor, educator.
Murray-Smith, Stephen, 1922-1988.
Christesen, C. B. 1911-2003.
Meanjin (Melbourne, Australia)
Overland (Melbourne, Australia)
Meanjin (Melbourne, Vic.)--History
Overland (Melbourne, Vic.)--History
Meanjin
Overland
Press and politics--History.--Australia
Periodicals--Australia--Biography.
Literature--Australia--Biography.
Periodicals--History--Australia--20th century.
Literature publishing--History--Australia--20th century.
Publishers and publishing--Australia--Biography.
Editors--Australia--Biography.
Australian.
Biographies.
070.510922
