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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Christina Stead : Satirist
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Reviews Stead's novels as inheritors of the tradition of Roman satire, arguing that Stead's satirical fiction presents a contemporary view of her own historical period from 1930 until the Cold War. Drawing on Stead's notes, diaries and manuscripts, Pender examines several of Stead's novels and her English short stories and puts forward an argument about the centrality of satire to Stead's discourse about culture and history. She also draws attention to the intellectual rigour and encyclopaedic breadth and vision evident in Stead's fiction and demonstrates Stead's significant contribution to the radical novel in the twentieth century.

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The Awkward Provocations of Christina Stead David Callahan , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 17 no. 1 2003; (p. 69-70)

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism
Stead's Satire of the West in Decline Brigid Rooney , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 173 2003; (p. 94-95)

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism
[Review] Christina Stead : Satirist Christina Hill , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 2003; (p. 190-193)

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism ; The Enigmatic Christina Stead : A Provocative Re-Reading Teresa Petersen , 2001 single work criticism
[Review] Christina Stead : Satirist Diana Brydon , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 21 no. 1 2003; (p. 124-127)

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism ; The Enigmatic Christina Stead : A Provocative Re-Reading Teresa Petersen , 2001 single work criticism
[Review] Christina Stead : Satirist Carole Ferrier , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , March vol. 18 no. 40 2003; (p. 108-110)

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism
[Review] Christina Stead : Satirist Marion Spies , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , January no. 12 2003;

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism
[Review] Christina Stead : Satirist Carole Ferrier , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , March vol. 18 no. 40 2003; (p. 108-110)

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism
[Review] Christina Stead : Satirist Diana Brydon , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 21 no. 1 2003; (p. 124-127)

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism ; The Enigmatic Christina Stead : A Provocative Re-Reading Teresa Petersen , 2001 single work criticism
[Review] Christina Stead : Satirist Christina Hill , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 2003; (p. 190-193)

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism ; The Enigmatic Christina Stead : A Provocative Re-Reading Teresa Petersen , 2001 single work criticism
Stead's Satire of the West in Decline Brigid Rooney , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 173 2003; (p. 94-95)

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism
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