Christina Stead
Articles
- Dreaming of the Middle Ages: The Place of the ‘mittelalterlich’ and Socialist Awareness in Christina’s Stead’s Early Fiction
The Middle Ages have proved to be imaginatively a fluid and artistically enticing entity. As Umberto Eco has underscored, many have turned to the Middle…
1 November 2011 - Interview with Christina Stead
Stead discusses her career, relationship to Australia and approach to writing among other topics.
1 October 1980 - Review of Christina Stead by R. G. Geering
Christina Stead is one of the major innovatory prose writers in English of this century. This needs stating at the outset, since her stature, distinction…
1 October 1970 - Christina Stead
Wilding provides a brief obituary for Christina Stead following her death in March 1983.
1 October 1983 - Review of Christina Stead: Satirist, by Anne Pender, and The Enigmatic Christina Stead: A Provocative Re-Reading, by Teresa Petersen.
Christina Stead's fictions continue to puzzle and fascinate her readers. Following in the traditions of debate first sparked by Hazel Rowley's controversial biography, these two…
1 May 2003 - Review of Christina Stead: A Life of Letters by Chris Williams, Christina Stead by Diana Brydon, Christina Stead by Susan Sheridan, and Christina Stead's Heroine: The Changing Sense of Decorum by Kate Macomber Stern
'If she had been male and English, perhaps she would have been recognised sooner for the experimentalist she is. But if she had been male…
1 May 1990 - Fathers and Lovers: Three Australian Novels
Discusses three Australian novels--The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead, Time Enough Later (1945) by Kylie Tennant and The Watch Tower (1966)…
1 October 1982 - Authors’ Statements [Christina Stead]
Christina Stead discusses her career and approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - A Fiction of Sisters: Christina Stead’s Letty Fox and For Love Alone
CHRISTINA Stead's Letty Fox, Her Luck (1946) is not considered one of her major works. Critics have found it a racy, entertaining but rather shallow…
1 May 1989 - Christina Stead: A Checklist
A checklist of work by and about Christina Stead.
1 October 1980 - Review of Christina Stead: A Biography, by Hazel Rowley.
Hazel Rowley's biography of Christina Stead has generated very divergent responses in its early reviews. Michael Wilding in the Australian Book Review (152, July 1993)…
1 May 1994 - A Christina Stead Letter
Includes the text of a letter Christina Stead written to her stepmother Thistle Stead in 1942 regarding her novel The Man Who Loved Children (1940).
1 October 1987 - Getting Started: The Emergence of Christina Stead’s Early Fiction
Christina Stead had her first two books published in London in 1934. It was an impressive literary debut by what the Bulletin called 'a Sydney…
1 October 1987 - Christina Stead’s ‘Drama of the Person’
Examines the use of dramatic methods and techniques in Stead’s work, particularly in her presentation of characters’ lives.
1 October 1987 - Review of The Magic Phrase: Critical Essays on Christina Stead and Christina Stead's Politics of Place
The Magic Phrase: Critical Articles on Christina Stead, edited by Margaret Harris, appears in the Studies in Australian Literature series (UQP), tile only regular…
1 May 2001 - Christina Stead: An Interview
In a long and detailed interview, Stead discusses among other topics her peripatetic career, literary influences, her relationship to Australia and childhood in Sydney.
1 May 1974 - Searchlights and the Search for History in Christina Stead’s ‘Seven Poor Men of Sydney’
Drawing on a significant motif from the novel itself, Bindella argues that the metaphor of the web helps clarify the apparent 'shapelessness' of Stead's Seven…
1 June 1991 - Ocean of Story
Christina Stead discusses her approach to short fiction and the childhood experiences that inform her writing.
1 October 1981 - A Pastoral Reading of Christina Stead’s Cotters’ England
With specific reference to Virgil’s Eclogues, Paul Alpers argues that ‘the poetics of pastoral can tell us something about poetics in general’ (The…
30 June 2015 - ‘The Young Man Will Go Far’: Educational Mobility and Christina Stead’s Compositional Practice in the Early 1930s
Education is a recurring concern in Stead's fiction, but nowhere is it more prominent as a theme than in her unpublished and largely ignored manuscript…
7 December 2016
Contributors
- Michael Ackland
- Michael Ackland
- Diana Brydon
- Denise Brown
- Maria Teresa Bindella
- Laurie Clancy
- Marianne Ehrhardt
- Carole Ferrier
- Jennifer Gribble
- Laurie Hergenhan
- William Lane
- Christina Stead
- Christina Stead
- Anita Kristina Segerberg
- Anita Kristina Segerberg
- Anita Kristina Segerberg
- Christina Stead
- Christina Stead
- Rodney Wetherell
- Michael Wilding
- Michael Wilding
- Anne Whitehead