Novel writing

Discusses and compares drafts, revisions, and typescript fragments of Capricornia (particularly of Chapter Three) with regard to the imaginative vision of the novel.

Examines the political consequences inherent in the genre of the ‘well-made novel’. Argues that ‘a reading of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith may tell us, not only what Keneally’s novel explicitly states, that there is a limit to understanding white…

Pender’s article reveals information from newly discovered Christina Stead manuscripts, and proposes a new reading, in the light of these materials, of Stead’s posthumously published novel I’m Dying Laughing (ed. by Ron Geering).