'A little bit of the real Sydney': Comparing Gender, Socialism and the City in Works by William Lane and Christina Stead

Authors

  • Brigid Rooney Macquarie University

Keywords:

William Lane, Christina Stead, the city, women, socialism

Abstract

The article compares William Lane's Workingman's Paradise (1892) and Christina Stead's Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1935) as representing the city of Sydney as a gendered political order. It explores how these novels intervene in contemporaneous debates about gender and the 'woman question' in the context of radical socialist thought.

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Published

2013-02-02

Issue

1999: Australian Writing and the City

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How to Cite

’A little bit of the real Sydney’: Comparing Gender, Socialism and the City in Works by William Lane and Christina Stead. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 54-61. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9568