Christina Stead and the Matter of America

Fiona Morrison is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales. Her books include Masters in Pieces: The English Canon for the Twenty-First Century (with Michael Parker) and, as editor, Dorothy Hewett: Selected Prose. She is the non-fiction editor of Southerly and president of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

“a highly informed, astute study of one of the giants of world literature.”

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Christina Stead’s “Westward Expansion”: Totality, avant-garde realism and the American folk2. Fascist miscellanies and the allegory of the domestic front in The Man Who Loved Children3. Debt, domestic enclosure and daughterly revolution in The Man Who Loved Children4. The New York love market and the Picara Fortunata in Letty Fox: Her Luck5. Men, mobility and capital relations A Little Tea, A Little Chat and The People with the Dogs6. Gargantuan contradictions and the supercession of limits in I’m Dying LaughingConclusionAbout the authorWorks citedIndex