In the essay that coined the term for this mentality, its “comic irrelevance” is illustrated with the question, “What would a French classicist think of Macbeth?” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this two-word term for an inferiority complex ubiquitous in Australian high society and literature, according to a controversial 1950 essay published in the literary journal Meanjin by critic A. A. Phillips.
ANSWER: cultural cringe [prompt on the Cringe]
[10m] Robert Hughes attributes cultural cringe to the “stain” of this sort of person in his book The Fatal Shore. Tobias Oates helps one of these people look for his son, the gay dandy Henry Phipps, in a novel by Peter Carey.
ANSWER: convicts [or prisoners; accept convict stain; prompt on criminals] (The Carey novel is Jack Maggs, inspired by Abel Magwitch from Great Expectations.)
[10e] Phillips points to a Douglas Stewart play named for this figure as an example of the “spontaneous achievement” of the “Australian image.” Carey wrote a fictional “True History” of this man’s “Gang.”
ANSWER: Ned Kelly [or Ned Kelly or Edward Kelly; accept True History of the Kelly Gang]
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