Open AccessHard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature, 1908–1945
Author(s) -
Anna Smaill
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.v0ins27.5182
Subject(s) - feeling , frost (temperature) , habit , nationalism , history , sociology , literature , political science , law , art , philosophy , geography , psychology , epistemology , meteorology , social psychology , politics
John Newton’s Hard Frost opens by chiming the death knell for New Zealand literature. New Zealand writing, or at least the habit of thinking about it as such – a habit instilled so carefully and well by the arbiters of cultural nationalism – is over.