Christina Stead and the Matter of America

Christina Stead and the Matter of America / Fiona Morrison.

In this examination of Stead's American work, Fiona Morrison explores Stead's profound engagement with American politics and culture and their influence on her "restlessly experimental" style. Through the turbulent political and artistic debates of the 1930s, the Second World War...

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Main Author: Morrison, Fiona, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sydney : Sydney University Press, [2019]
Series:Sydney studies in Australian literature.
Subjects:
Stead, Christina, > 1902-1983 > Criticism and interpretation.
Stead, Christina, > 1902-1983
Literature
United States > In literature.
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary:In this examination of Stead's American work, Fiona Morrison explores Stead's profound engagement with American politics and culture and their influence on her "restlessly experimental" style. Through the turbulent political and artistic debates of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the emergence of McCarthyism, the "matter" of America provoked Stead to continue to create new ways of writing about politics, gender and modernity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (197 pages)
ISBN:1743324502
9781743325193
1743325193
9781743324509
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 26, 2019).

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