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Susan Sheridan

Susan Sheridan is Professor Emerita in the School of Humanities at Flinders University in Adelaide, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her latest book is The Fiction of Thea Astley (Cambria NY 2016). Earlier books include Christina Stead (1988), Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women’s Writing 1880s to 1930s (1995), Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women’s Weekly in the Postwar Years (2002) and Nine Lives: Postwar women writers making their mark (UQP 2011)

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Flinders University

Susan Sheridan

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Susan Sheridan
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
Susan Sheridan
Sex and the City: New Novels by Women and Middlebrow Culture at Mid-Century

‘Central to developments in Australian literature during the period from the end of Second World War until the mid-1960s—what might be called the ‘long 1950s’—was…

1 October 2012
Susan Sheridan
Generations Lost and Found: Reading Women Writers Together

The articles discusses reading a group of women writers together as a manifestation of literary feminism. It focuses on Australian women born between 1912 and…

1 October 2009
Susan Sheridan
Celebrating Elizabeth Jolley

When Elizabeth Jolley died in February 2007, the world lost one of the most distinctive literary voices of the late twentieth century. Jolley left a…

1 May 2009
Susan Sheridan
Review of Stressing tile Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry, by Ann Vickery

Stressing the Modern is a collective literary biography of seven women poets of the early twentieth century. The eldest is Mary Gilmore, whose long life…

1 May 2009
Susan Sheridan
Australian Letters and Postwar Modernity

Australian Letters, 'a quarterly review of writing and criticism', was launched in Adelaide in 1957. Max Harris, co-owner of the Mary Martin Bookshop, poet…

1 October 2008
Susan Sheridan
Suburban Sonnets: ‘Mrs Harwood’, Miriam Stone and Domestic Modernity

Discusses Gwen Harwood's approach to suburban life and domestic modernity, particularly in her satirical and pseudonymous poems. 'Despite her clear apprehension that, in the world's…

1 October 2007
Susan Sheridan
My Brilliant Career: The Career of the Career

Sheridan examines the somewhat chequered publication history and critical reception of My Brilliant Career, one hundred years after it was first published by Blackwood…

1 October 2002
Susan Sheridan
Cold War, Home Front : Australian Women Writers and Artists in the 1950s

In paying tribute to Dorothy Green, Sheridan recalls the generation of women writers and artists who emerged in the 1940s and 1950s, their social visions…

1 May 2002
Susan Sheridan
Review of Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary, by Carole Ferrier

Carole Ferrier's biography of Jean Devanny (1894-1962) involves the recovery not only of a neglected woman writer, but also of a much-maligned political activist, a…

1 October 2000
Susan Sheridan
Review of new books on Australian women's writing

Reviews the following volumes:

A Bright and Fiery Troop: Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin Australian Women's Library…

1 May 1989
Susan Sheridan
Gender and Genre in Barbara Baynton’s Human Toll

Sheridan challenges negative evaluations of Human Toll that measure the success of the novel against the well-made realist novel. Sheridan argues that the novel is…

1 May 1989
Susan Sheridan
Review of *Who Is She? Images of Woman in Australian Fiction', ed. Shirley Walker

The position of women is changing and sexual difference is problematic in social political, economic and cultural practice and theory. The title of Who is…

1 October 1984