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• Shortlisted for the 2021 Walter McRae Russell Award
• Winner of the 2021 Walter McRae Russell Award

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“a highly informed, astute study of one of the giants of world literature.” -- Steven Carroll * Sydney Morning Herald * ‘Morrison’s book further develops an understanding of the American years and of Stead’s profound engagement with the nation in a critical period of history.’ -- Anne Pender * Australian Book Review * 'Christina Stead and the Matter of America is a book that needed to be written. It will make you want to read Stead’s American novels – whether again, or for the first time. It is immensely readable, packed with juicy passages and incisive observations, responding to the energy and fearsome intellect of Stead’s work.' -- Brigid Rooney * mETAphor * ""Morrison argues that Stead saw her Australian-ness itself as her licence to write about the world. Australia's being an island continent gave Australians a mercurial transnationalism: Stead's colonial identity was therefore a central ideological motivation in her US-set fictional endeavours."" -- Madeleine Gray * Times Literary Supplement *

"“a highly informed, astute study of one of the giants of world literature.” -- Steven Carroll * Sydney Morning Herald * ‘Morrison’s book further develops an understanding of the American years and of Stead’s profound engagement with the nation in a critical period of history.’ -- Anne Pender * Australian Book Review * 'Christina Stead and the Matter of America is a book that needed to be written. It will make you want to read Stead’s American novels – whether again, or for the first time. It is immensely readable, packed with juicy passages and incisive observations, responding to the energy and fearsome intellect of Stead’s work.' -- Dr Brigid Rooney * mETAphor * ""Morrison argues that Stead saw her Australian-ness itself as her licence to write about the world. Australia's being an island continent gave Australians a mercurial transnationalism: Stead's colonial identity was therefore a central ideological motivation in her US-set fictional endeavours."" -- Madeleine Gray * Times Literary Supplement *"

a highly informed, astute study of one of the giants of world literature. -- Steven Carroll * Sydney Morning Herald * 'Morrison's book further develops an understanding of the American years and of Stead's profound engagement with the nation in a critical period of history.' -- Anne Pender * Australian Book Review * 'Christina Stead and the Matter of America is a book that needed to be written. It will make you want to read Stead's American novels - whether again, or for the first time. It is immensely readable, packed with juicy passages and incisive observations, responding to the energy and fearsome intellect of Stead's work.' -- Dr Brigid Rooney * mETAphor *

a highly informed, astute study of one of the giants of world literature. -- Steven Carroll * Sydney Morning Herald * 'Morrison's book further develops an understanding of the American years and of Stead's profound engagement with the nation in a critical period of history.' -- Anne Pender * Australian Book Review * 'Christina Stead and the Matter of America is a book that needed to be written. It will make you want to read Stead's American novels - whether again, or for the first time. It is immensely readable, packed with juicy passages and incisive observations, responding to the energy and fearsome intellect of Stead's work.' -- Dr Brigid Rooney * mETAphor * Morrison argues that Stead saw her Australian-ness itself as her licence to write about the world. Australia's being an island continent gave Australians a mercurial transnationalism: Stead's colonial identity was therefore a central ideological motivation in her US-set fictional endeavours. -- Madeleine Gray * Times Literary Supplement *

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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.

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