Rediscovering Christina Stead

Introduction

‘A Vermeer in the Hayloft’: Christina Stead, Unjust Neglect and Transnational Improprieties of Place and Kind

Christina Stead’s Earliest Publications

Christina Stead’s Student Publications

‘The Young Man Will Go Far’: Educational Mobility and Christina Stead’s Compositional Practice in the Early 1930s

The Tank Stream Press: Urban Modernity and Cultural Life in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney

‘Lights all askew in the heavens’: Einsteinian Relativity, Literary Modernism and the Lecture on Light in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney

The Children’s Chorus: Sibling Soundscapes in The Man Who Loved Children

Repetition and Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children

Christina Stead’s ‘Kelly File’: Politics, Possession and the Writing of Cotters’ England

‘Merely Unfriendly or Slightly Critical’: Christina Stead. The Left, and I’m Dying Laughing

Politics and Passion in Stead’s Late Novels