Ackland, Michael (2018) Fending off Doomsday: Christina Stead's response to postwar, democratic Europe. Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, 9 (2). pp. 43-55.

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Abstract

The article offers an overview of Stead's response to the bourgeois social order, with special emphasis on her satiric commentary after the Second World War. In particular, Stead's interest in covert statement and the role of Lenin's seminal theses on the rentier class and imperialism are traced in The Little Hotel to reveal Stead's unrelenting espousal of communism and her apparent certainty that the capitalist order was facing imminent overthrow.

Item ID:	72056
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	2013-6897
Keywords:	communism, post-war, Switzerland, imperialism, Lenin, rentier class
Date Deposited:	09 Feb 2022 02:56
FoR Codes:	47 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 4705 Literary studies > 470502 Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) @ 100%
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