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Christina Stead and the Matter of America

By (author) Fiona Morrison

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Winner of the Walter McRae Russel Award 2021 Although Christina Stead is best known for the mid-century masterpiece set in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, The Man Who Loved Children, it was not her only work about the America. Five of Christina Steadâ€™s mid-career novels deal with the United States, capturing and critiquing American life with characteristic sharpness and originality. In this examination of Steadâ€™s American work, Fiona Morrison explores Steadâ€™s profound engagement with American politics and culture and their influence on her â€œrestlessly experimentalâ€ style. Through the turbulent political and artistic debates of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the emergence of McCarthyism, the â€œmatterâ€ of America provoked Stead to continue to create new ways of writing about politics, gender and modernity. ""This superb study of Steadâ€™s fiction not only significantly advances scholarship on Stead but is a significant analysis of mid-twentieth-century fiction in its own right ... Brilliantly researched, written and argued, Morrisonâ€™s book offers a testimony to the capacities of literary scholarship to map the tectonic movement of ideas that shaped the modern world system."" Tony Hughes-d'Aeth and panel, Walter McRae Russel Award This is the first critical study to focus on Steadâ€™s time in America and its influence on her writing. Morrison argues compellingly that Steadâ€™s American novels â€œreveal the work of the greatest political woman writer of the mid twentieth centuryâ€, and that Steadâ€™s account of American ideology and national identity remains extraordinarily prescient, even today.

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