Better Half-Dead than Read? The Mezzomorto Cases and their Implications for Literary Culture in the 1930s

Authors

  • Ben Goldsmith Griffith University

Keywords:

Brian Penton, Vivian Crockett, P.R. Stephensen, libel

Abstract

An examination of the two libel cases against Brian Penton's review of Vivian Crockett's novel Mezzomorto and the feud between Penton and the publisher, P.R. Stephensen.

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2013-02-04

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1998: Australian Literature and the Public Sphere

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Better Half-Dead than Read? The Mezzomorto Cases and their Implications for Literary Culture in the 1930s. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 80-89. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9548