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 - Review of Christina Stead by R. G. Geering1 October 1970
- 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 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 - 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 - 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Education is a recurring concern in Stead's fiction, but nowhere is it more prominent as a theme than in her unpublished and largely ignored manuscript…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 - Christina Stead’s Student Publications
This selection of Christina Stead's student publications was edited by Margaret Harris to accompany her essay, 'Christina Stead's Earliest Publications.'
7 December 2016 - The Tank Stream Press: Urban Modernity and Cultural Life in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney
In Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934), Christina Stead evokes the city’s history in her naming of the Tank Stream Press, the novel’s central location…
7 December 2016 - ‘Lights all askew in the heavens’: Einsteinian Relativity, Literary Modernism and the Lecture on Light in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney
This essay offers new insights into Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934) and in particular its celebrated ‘lecture on light.’ It illuminates the…
7 December 2016 - ‘Merely Unfriendly or Slightly Critical’: Christina Stead. The Left, and I’m Dying Laughing
The principal subject of the novel Stead spent much of her later years working on, published after her death, I'm Dying Laughing, is marked…
7 December 2016 - Politics and Passion in Stead’s Late Novels
This essay examines some recent attempts to devise a new critical approach to Stead’s fiction which can encompass both the socialism she endorsed and the…
7 December 2016 - Introduction
One evening in December 2015, following a symposium on Christina Stead (‘Re-Discovering Again’), participants and members of the public gathered at the University of New…
7 December 2016 - The Children’s Chorus: Sibling Soundscapes in The Man Who Loved Children
The voices of children in The Man Who Loved Children allow Christina Stead to re-imagine her childhood and also to provide a platform for representing…
7 December 2016 - Repetition and Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children
This essay explores repetition, in both content and technique, in Christina Stead’s novel, The Man Who Loved Children. I indicate how the Pollit family…
7 December 2016 - Christina Stead’s ‘Kelly File’: Politics, Possession and the Writing of Cotters’ England
Critics who value Christina Stead’s radical politics often find the passionate excess and the spectral and ambiguous qualities that attend her fiction harder to explain…
7 December 2016 - ‘A Vermeer in the Hayloft’: Christina Stead, Unjust Neglect and Transnational Improprieties of Place and Kind
Published in New York to muted praise in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was re-issued in 1965 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston with a…
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Contributors
- Michael Ackland
- Michael Ackland
- Diana Brydon
- Meg Brayshaw
- Nicholas Birns
- Susan Carson
- Carole Ferrier
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Margaret Harris
- William Lane
- William Lane
- Sam Matthews
- Fiona Morrison
- Fiona Morrison
- Brigid Rooney
- Brigid Rooney
- Christina Stead
- Susan Sheridan
- Michael Wilding