Politics

Louis Esson is on record as having agreed with the notion that literature is a mirror held up to nature, and The Time Is Not…

Wilding is much more than a creative writer. His contribution to Australian culture has been in a number of fields, three of which (creative writing…

Frank Hardy certainly enjoyed the controversy he attracted while he was alive, and doubtless he would find great satisfaction in remaining a centrifugal force in…

The terms of the contest, launched in late 1945, seemed straightforward enough. The Sydney Daily Telegraph would award £1000 for the best Australian novel and…

These very different books - one a study of cultural conflicts and controversies, particularly of how these were pursued in little magazines; the other a…

Uses Pierre Bourdieu’s theories to explore unresolved contradictions in Christina Stead concerning her feminism, politics and reputation.

Education is a recurring concern in Stead's fiction, but nowhere is it more prominent as a theme than in her unpublished and largely ignored manuscript…

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…

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…