A Masculine Romance: The Sentimental Bloke and Australian Culture in the War- and Early Interwar Years

The Sentimental Bloke was a hugely popular multi-media phenomenon in Australia during the First World War and early interwar years. I explore the work as a heterosexual “masculine romance”: a love story expressing heterosexual romantic feeling from a masculine point of view and in a self-consciously...

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Main Author: Melissa Bellanta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) 2014-10-01
Series:Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Online Access:https://www.jprstudies.org/2014/10/a-masculine-romance-the-sentimental-bloke-and-australian-culture-in-the-war-and-early-interwar-yearsby-melissa-bellanta/