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Christina Stead and the Matter of America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature SeriesPublisher: Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781743324509
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Christina Stead and the Matter of AmericaDDC classification:
  • 823.912
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.3.S75 .M677 2019
Online resources:
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.
Summary: This is the first critical study to focus on Stead's time in America and its influence on her writing.
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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.

This is the first critical study to focus on Stead's time in America and its influence on her writing.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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