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'Reality is Monstrous' : Christina Stead's Critique of the Triumphant West in The Puzzleheaded Girl
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'Reality is Monstrous' : Christina Stead's Critique of the Triumphant West in The Puzzleheaded Girl
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Ackland talks about the publishing decline of Christina Stead's career due to her worsening political and economic situation. Midway through the 1960s, Stead's career was perilously poised. For more than a decade nothing new had appeared from her pen. This was a striking hiatus for a writer who previously had been producing novels at a rate of one every two or three year. Here, Ackland attempts first to establish Stead's political position and opinion of the post-war consensus that had emerged in the US before endeavouring to trace the impact of these attitudes on her depictions of contemporary society in The Puzzleheaded Girl.' (Editor's abstract)
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'Reality is Monstrous' : Christina Stead's Critique of the Triumphant West in The Puzzleheaded Girl
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- The Puzzleheaded Girl 1965 single work novella
- A Little Tea, a Little Chat 1948 single work novel
- The People with the Dogs 1952 single work novel
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