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by: Anne Pender
Amazon.com's Price: $15.00 Prices subject to change.
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781863350839
ISBN: 1863350837
Label: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
Manufacturer: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: April 01, 2002
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
Sales Rank: 5372770
Studio: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
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Product Description:
Christina Stead was an accomplished satirist, yet critics have chosen to ignore the satire in her fiction. In this study, Anne Pender reviews Stead’s novels as inheritors of the tradition of satire that dates back to the Roman satires of Horace and Juvenal. Pender’s work focuses on Stead’s attempt to interpret the history of her own period through satire.
The work establishes Stead as a satirist by demonstrating the way in which she adopted the techniques associated with satire— the castigation of folly and vice— but also provides an analysis of Stead’s experimentation with the genre, transforming it as her career progressed. The work contains a detailed and contextual analysis of Steads satirical novels, The Beauties and Furies; House Of All Nations; Letty Fox: Her Luck, Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife); A Little Tea: A Little Chat; The People with the Dogs; Cotters’ England and I’m Dying Laughing.
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