Main Title: |
Gender, politics and fiction : twentieth century Australian women's novels / edited by Carole Ferrier. |
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Author: |
Ferrier, Carole, 1946-
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Imprint: |
University of Queensland Press, 1985. |
Collation: |
x, 262 p. ; hbk, 23 cm. |
Summary: |
Introductory commentary Women writers in Australia / Carole Ferrier -- My brilliant career: portrait of the artist as a wild colonial girl / Susan Gardner -- Alias Miles franklin / Valerie Kent -- Nettie Palmer as critic / Deborah Jordan -- Katharine Susannah Prichard and the literary dynamics of political commitment / Pat Buckridge -- Jean Devanny, Katharine Susannah Prichard, and the "really proletarian novel" / Carole Ferrier -- Eve Langley: personal and artistic schism / Joy Thwaite -- The man who loved children and the patriarchal family drama / Susan Sheridan -- "Deep into the destructive core": Elizabeth Harrower's The watch tower /$rFrancis Mcinherny -- Migrant women writers: Who's on whose margins? / Sneja Gunew -- Constructing the woman writer: the reviewing reception of Hazzard's The transit of Venus / Bronwen Levy -- Australian women novelists of the 1970s: a survey / Margaret Smith. |
Subject: |
Writers and writing Women Criticism and interpretation Australia
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ISBN: |
0702217964 0702220078 (pbk.) 0702223344 (pbk.) |
Notes: |
Bibliography: p. [252]-262. [Variant title:Gender, politics and fiction : 20th century Australian women's novels.]
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