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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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Christina Stead's Westward Expansion: Totality, Avant-Garde Realism and the American Folk
  • Chapter 2
  • Fascist Miscellanies and the Allegory of the Domestic Front in The Man Who Loved Children
  • Chapter 3
  • Debt, Domestic Enclosure and Daughterly Revolution in The Man Who Loved Children
  • Chapter 4
  • The New York Love Market and the Picara Fortunata in Letty Fox: Her Luck
  • Chapter 5
  • Men, Mobility and Capital Relations in A Little Tea, A Little Chat and The People with the Dogs
  • Chapter 6
  • Gargantuan Contradictions and the Supercession of Limits in I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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