Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Authorships
- 7 “Rich and Strange”
- 8 Sexuality in Patrick White’s Fiction
- 9 Constellational Form in Gerald Murnane
- 10 Helen Garner’s House of Fiction
- 11 Alexis Wright’s Novel Activism
- 12 Kim Scott and the Doctoral Novel
- Part III Futures
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
7 - “Rich and Strange”
Christina Stead and the Transnational Novel
from Part II - Authorships
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2023
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Authorships
- 7 “Rich and Strange”
- 8 Sexuality in Patrick White’s Fiction
- 9 Constellational Form in Gerald Murnane
- 10 Helen Garner’s House of Fiction
- 11 Alexis Wright’s Novel Activism
- 12 Kim Scott and the Doctoral Novel
- Part III Futures
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
This chapter considers Christina Stead as a transnational writer, who travelled across continents and through political contexts. It argues that her work is bound together by a “marine aesthetics” and surveys how this plays out in the key phases of writing life: an early period in London and Paris, a middle period in America, and late period, in Europe, England, and Australia. Stead is a political writer of the twentieth century, but also a formal realist whose works continue to challenge the novel genre today.
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel , pp. 115 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023